Portuguese India 1881 1/8 tanga

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from Stephen Album sale 43, lot 960

This specimen was lot 960 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $240. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGUESE INDIA: Luíz I, 1861-1889, AE 1/8 tanga, 1881, a lovely mint state example with much original red luster! PCGS graded MS63 BN, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." This specimen is from a three year type struck for the Portuguese colonies in India. Once extensive, Portuguese dominions had dwindled by the 1800's to the enclaves of Goa, Diu and Damao. Issues up to 1952 were based on the rupee (one rupia = 16 tanga) and struck at the British controlled mints of Bombay and Calcutta. The year 1881 saw the only complete series of silver minted, including the eighth, quarter, half and one rupia. Copper issues included an eighth (shown here), quarter, half and one tanga. This type was also struck in 1884 and 1886. The mintage figure given below, taken from the SCWC, is probably intended to be 12,397,000.

Recorded mintage: 12,397 for 1881-86.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: KM-307.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Alberto Gomes and Francisco Antonio Magro, Moedas Portuguesas e do Território Que Hoje é Portugal: Catálogo das Moedas Cunhadas para o Continentes e Ilhas Adjacentes, para os Territórios do Ultramar e Grão-Mestres Portugueses da Ordem de Malta, 6ª Edição, Lisbon: Associação Numismática de Portugal, 2013.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2022.

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