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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Lisboa (Lisbon Mint) |
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| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Liberty facing left, adorned with an olive branch tucked into her hair, rendered in moderate relief. The effigy is depicted with classically styled hair gathered at the nape, consistent with the allegorical Republican iconography employed on Portuguese colonial coinage of the early twentieth century. The legend CABO VERDE curves around the periphery, split to either side of the portrait, and the coin is bordered by a fine dentilated rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Portugal's switch to brass for small-denomination coinage in 1930 followed years of monetary instability under the First Republic, which had collapsed in the military coup of 1926. The Estado Novo financial reforms under Salazar — then serving as Finance Minister before consolidating broader power — prioritized stabilizing the escudo, and the new coinage series was part of that retrenchment. The Gomes reference CV 01.01 designates this as the first year of the type, making it the founding strike of what would become a long-running series.