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10 Centavos Pattern
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Bare laureate bust of Liberty facing left, depicted with hair gathered and braided, adorned with a leafy wreath. The effigy is rendered in fine classical style with no surrounding legend or inscription, occupying the full field within a raised border. The portrait shows careful attention to hair detail, with locks swept back and secured at the nape. |
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The Gomes E4.09 designation places this among the Portuguese pattern issues catalogued by Flávio Gomes, struck as part of the Republican-era monetary reform trials that followed the 1910 revolution. Portugal produced numerous bronze pattern centavo denominations in this period as the new republic worked to establish a coinage identity distinct from the monarchical issues it was replacing. Many of these patterns never advanced to circulation, rejected for aesthetic, metallurgical, or political reasons that the archival record does not always clarify.