6 Escudos - Republic

Features

Issuer	Portuguese India
Period	Republic (1910-1961)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1959
Value	6 Escudos
Currency	Escudo (1958-1961)
Composition	Nickel brass (61% Copper, 20% Zinc, 19% Nickel)
Weight	14 g
Diameter	31 mm
Thickness	2.5 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	15 May 1962
Number	N# 11770
References	KM# 35 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Gomes# R 18.01 Alberto Gomes; 1991. Moedas Portuguesas. Associação Numismatica de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal. , Schön# 23 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Series: Decimal System

Obverse

Tiny towers and shields above divided shield on lined circle

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ESTADO·DA·INDIA
6$00

Reverse

Shield on lined circle at center of Order of Christus Cross, date below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA·PORTUGUESA
·1959·

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, Lisbon, Portugal

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1959			4 000 000				$ 7.00	$ 7.20	$ 12	$ 16

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