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Portuguese Mozambique or Portuguese East Africa @menumist 1 Escudo Overseas province of Portugual (1951-1975)

Portuguese Mozambique (Portuguese: Moçambique) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony. Portuguese Mozambique originally constituted a string of Portuguese possessions along the south-east African coast, and later became a unified colony, which now forms the Republic of Mozambique.
Consolidation of Portuguese control
By the 1880s the Portuguese controlled trade and collected tribute in coastal enclaves from Ibo in the north to Lourenço Marques in the south, but their ability to control events outside those areas was quite limited; that situation, however, was about to change. Increasingly, as neighbours of the Gaza state were raided periodically for refusing to pay tribute, they began to ally themselves with the Portuguese, which the Portuguese both encouraged and exploited. In the 1890s a coalition of Portuguese troops and African armies marched against the state. When the Gaza leadership was finally defeated in 1897, southern Mozambique passed into Portuguese control. Two decades later the Portuguese, who had mounted dozens of military campaigns by that time, directly controlled the Barue of central Mozambique, the African Portuguese of the Zambezi and Maganja da Costa prazos, the Yao of Mataka, the northern Makua chiefdoms, and the northern coastal sheikhdoms of Angoche.

Obverse
Arms within a crowned globe, date below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
· MOÇAMBIQUE ·
· 1968 ·

Translation:
Mozambique
1968

Reverse
Value in the centre, legend surrounding.

Script: Latin
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Lettering:
REPÚBLICA · PORTUGUESA
1
ESCUDO

Translation:
Portuguese Republic
1
Escudo

Edge
Smooth

Mint
Lisbon, Portugal
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