v50_0235 - ANGOLA - MARIA I 8 macutas 1796

MONNAIES 50 (2011)
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 600.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 637.00 €

Type : 8 macutas

Date: 1796

Quantity minted : 25000

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰

Diameter : 32,12 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 11,57 g.

Edge : fleuronnée

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Usure régulière de circulation sur les reliefs. La monnaie a été anciennement nettoyée mais s’est repatinée. La frappe est bonne et bien centrée. Un exemplaire plaisant

Catalogue references :

Gom.07.02 - KM/WC.19/34

Obverse

Obverse legend : MARIA.I.D.G.REGINA.P.ET.D.GUINEAE.

Obverse description : Écu de Bragance couronné.

Obverse translation : (Marie Ire, par la grâce de Dieu, reine de Portugal et duchesse de Guinée).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (POINT) (ROSETTE) (POINT) 1796 (POINT) (ROSETTE) (POINT) AFRICA (ROSETTE) PORTUGUEZA.

Reverse description : À l’intérieur d’une couronne de lauriers, rosettes et, sur trois lignes, MACU/ TAS/ 8.

Historical background

ANGOLA - MARIA I

(1777-1816)

Marie succeeded Joseph I in 1777. Pierre III, her husband, was associated with her until 1786, the date of her death. Marie reigned until 1805, but, in fact, Prince John was regent from 1799 and remained so until 1818. Her full title was: Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, of each side of the sea in Africa, Duchess of Guinea and of the conquest, navigation and commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India by the grace of God. Discovered by explorer Diogo Cão at the end of the 15th century, Angola gradually became a Portuguese colony. It was only in 1975, after a terrible war of liberation, that the country became independent..