1938 PORTUGUESE MOZAMBIQUE Silver "5 ESCUDOS" Pre-World War II MINTAGE: 800,000

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1938 PORTUGUESE MOZAMBIQUE Silver "5 ESCUDOS" Pre-World War II >MINTAGE: 800,000
1938 PORTUGUESE MOZAMBIQUE Silver "5 ESCUDOS" Pre-World War II >MINTAGE: 800,000
Description
This is a nice, lightly circulated, still lustrous, low mintage, silver,
"Five Escudos"
from
"Portuguese"
Mozambique on the east coast of Africa. Vasco De Gama visited Mozambique on his way to India in 1495 and found Arab trading posts already established there. The Portuguese rapidly took these over and Mozambique became and remained a Portuguese Colony until 1975.
This type 5 Escudos was struck for Mozambique in only two years, 1938 and 1949. This year they struck 800,000 pieces, in 1949 they struck 8 million coins.
Weight: 6.97 Grams, 26 Millimeters, .650 Silver. Mintage: 800,000.
"Standard Catalog of World Coins"
(1901-2000)
by Krause-Mishler.
#6
2.
Obverse:
REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA • 1938 • Arms on globe over Maltese cross.
Reverse:
COLONIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE • 5
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• Castles above arms on globe.
The Coin:
A pleasant specimen, still with some cartwheel luster. As grading is subjective, please see the pictures and judge for yourself.
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