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50 Avos
| Issuer | Portuguese Timor (1910-2002) |
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| Year | 1945-1951 |
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| Value | 50 Avos (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central device comprising a Portuguese armillary sphere surmounted by the Portuguese Republican shield, the whole superimposed upon a stylised Cross of the Order of Christ whose pointed rays extend toward the coin's rim. The Portuguese coat of arms shield displays the traditional quinas arrangement. The circular legend REPUBLICA·PORTUGUESA arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 1945 prominently placed in the lower exergual area flanked by raised dots. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 50 in large, bold numerals occupies the centre of the field, with AVOS inscribed immediately below in smaller lettering. The colonial inscription COLONIA DE TIMOR curves along the upper periphery. In the lower portion of the field, two crossed olive branches bearing fruit spread symmetrically beneath the denomination, serving as decorative devices emblematic of the colonial coinage tradition. |
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Portuguese Timor's silver coinage of this period was struck at the Casa da Moeda in Lisbon, issued for a colony that remained under Lisbon's administrative control throughout the Japanese occupation of 1942–1945 — meaning these coins were authorized by a government that had temporarily lost physical access to the territory they were intended to serve. Circulation of this issue only became practical after Allied forces displaced the Japanese in late 1945.
The .650 fineness places it among Portugal's reduced-silver colonial issues, a deliberate postwar economy applied across several of its overseas territories.