4½ Reis Portuguese India

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.