07/10/2024
PORTUGUESE INDIA COINS - II
These are second set of coins for today's display. The displayed ones are 1/12 , 1/8, 1/4 , 1/2 and 1 Tanga(2 diff sizes).
For 1/12, 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2 Tanga coins
OBVERSE : Bust to right, date in roman numerals below. Lettering:CARLOS I REI DE PORTUGAL MCMI
REVERSE: Crowned arms, value below. Lettering:
INDIA PORTUGUESA.
The government of Portuguese India started on 12 September 1505, seven years after the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida, then settled at Cochin. Until 1752, the name India included all Portuguese possessions in the Indian Ocean, from Southern Africa to Southeast Asia, governed – either by a viceroy or governor – from its headquarters, established in Old Goa in 1510. In 1752 Portuguese Mozambique was granted its own government, and in 1844 the Portuguese government of India ceased administering the territory of Portuguese Macau, Solor and Portuguese Timor, seeing itself thus confined to a reduced territorial possessions along the Konkan, Canara and Malabar Coasts, which would further be reduced to the present-day state of Goa and the union territory of Daman. Portuguese control ceased in Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954, and finally ceased in Goa in 1961, when the area was occupied by the Republic of India (although Portugal only recognised the occupation after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, by a treaty signed on 31 December 1974.
