Portuguese Colonial - Angola Portuguese Angola 1/2 Macuta countermark 1837 on 1/4 Macuta 1762 copper KM 49.1 F-VF

Portuguese Angola, half macuta, created by a countermark of 1837 on a quarter macuta of 1762 from the reign of King José I.

Obverse: a shield under a crown, with the name and titles of King José I running around it. On this piece the lettering is only partly legible.

Reverse: around the edge the words AFRICA PORTUGUEZA with the year 1762. In the centre stood the value in macuta, now largely covered by the countermark. The countermark shows the crowned arms of Portugal and goes back to the edict of 21 March 1837. It doubles the face value, so a quarter macuta becomes a half macuta.

References: KM# 49.1, Gomes M2 03.01. The host coin is KM# 10.

In Portuguese Angola the macuta was a value of 50 réis, and coins were issued carrying that value. From the middle of the eighteenth century there were copper pieces of 10, 20 and 40 réis and of a quarter, a half and a whole macuta, alongside silver pieces of 2 up to 12 macutas. From 1814 onwards only copper was issued, from a quarter up to two macutas. In the years that followed, older copper coins were given a countermark with the crowned arms of Portugal, which doubled their value. Queen Maria II reigned from 1834 to 1853. According to the catalogue the same dies were used for that countermark in 1837 and in 1853. The last coins of this series came in 1860, and in 1914 the escudo replaced the real in Angola.

One copper coin that carries two rulers and 75 years of Angolan history.

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