W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

528 The Coins of Europe
reign of Pedro II (1667-1706) that a type directly pertinent
to the foreign possessions of Portugal was adopted in a globe
and the legend Subq. Sign. Nata Stab. There are a silver
piece of 2 patacas, 1695, a pataca (320 reis), and a half
pataca, 4, 2, and i vintems in the same metal, and a vintem
and half vintem in copper. These were destined for Brazil,
and read on obverse, Petrus II D G Port- Rex- Et- Bras-
U
;
and
they were struck at Lisbon or Porto ;
but others
for circulation in
the Portuguese Indies appear
to have been
fabricated at Goa, and to this era may be ascribed the origin
of the Rupia di Goa, reproduced down to quite recent times
on the archaic model. We possess one of Pedro V., 1859.
The whole series is
coarsely executed, yet curious, particularly
those with the accollated busts of Maria I. and Pedro
III., and usually presents itself in the sorriest state of preservation.
The colonial money
is classifiable into three sections :
the coins for the Indies ;
those for Brazil
;
those for Guinea,
Angola, Mozambique, Madeira, the Azores, and other African
settlements ;
for each of which there are special coinages of
imperial or local origin, but for the African settlements
principally the former. A proportion of the Indian currency
was produced at Goa, and the earlier issues are often very
rare. We have before us a rough 10 reis in lead of 1769
not mentioned by Fernandes, who describes and engraves,
however, others of 1722, 1765, and 1769 in the same
material from that seat of coinage; one has 7^and
another
xii. for the value in bazarucos. Much of the Brazilian money
was eventually struck at Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Preto,
and bears the m.m. B or R or P ; the series does not extend
beyond 1822, of which year and 1821 there are 8o-reis
pieces of peculiarly thin and broad fabric. There is also a
cast one of the same facial value, from the Rio mint, for
Thomas's and Prince's Islands, 1813, and a second (tnalucd]
of 1829 for Terceira or the Acpres, the latter with the
titles and shield on obverse, and on reverse the value in a
wreath and Utilitati Publica; IlJia Terceira. The original
reverse legend on the Brazilian money was subsequently
St.