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4½ Reis Portuguese India
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | R 4 1/2 20 21 INDIA PORTUGUESA |
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| Reverse lettering | GOA |
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A 2021 steel restrike of a colonial-era denomination, issued by the Portuguese Indian numismatic program long after Goa's 1961 annexation by India ended any actual Portuguese monetary authority on the subcontinent. The 4½ reis denomination itself was a colonial oddity — fractional reis values were used in Portuguese India to reconcile the local system with indigenous bazaar coinage, producing denominations that had no clean equivalent anywhere else in the Portuguese empire.