1 Escudo Discovery

Portuguese Guinea received almost no dedicated coinage until well into the twentieth century — the territory had long relied on issues from the broader Portuguese colonial series or imported metropolitan currency. The 1946 bronze escudo was part of a modest push to formalize circulation in the colony, struck at Lisbon's Casa da Moeda alongside issues for Angola, Mozambique, and other overseas possessions sharing that year's colonial minting program.

KM#7 is not a rare type, but surviving examples in problem-free condition are harder to source than mintage alone would suggest — the tropical West African climate was particularly unkind to bronze.