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40 Réis - José I
| Issuer | Angola |
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| Year | 1753-1757 |
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| Currency | Real (18th century-1914) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IOSEPHUS·I·D·G·REX·P·ET·D·GUINEAE· XL · 1757 · (Translation: José I, by the Grace of God, King of Portugal and Lord of Guinea.) |
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José I's Angolan copper coinage of the 1750s was struck under the authority of the Estado da India administrative framework, but the physical production almost certainly occurred in Lisbon rather than in the colony itself — a common arrangement for Portuguese overseas issues of the period, where local minting infrastructure was either absent or unreliable. Angola at this point was less a coherently administered territory than a loose network of slaving ports and interior trading posts, and coin rarely penetrated far beyond Luanda.
Bentes 226 is notoriously difficult to find without heavy porosity, a direct consequence of the humid coastal climate where most examples spent their circulating life.