COINS FROM MALACCA, 191 
coins, in fact some of them may be the identical specimens which 
Albuquerque threw out over the heads of the admiring crowd 
during his procession and the proclamation of the new coinage 
ni Malacca in 1511. 
The oldest specimens are three coins in excellent condition 
belonging to the reign of King Emmanuel who was reigning 
when Malacca was captured. Their diameter is 30 mm.— 1,3; in., 
their weight 10.3 to 10.8 grammes, and they are probably 
bastardos. They bear on the obverse the Portuguese coat-of- 
arms, and around it the inscription: 
EWANVEL: R: P: ET: A: DOVINE. 
The second and fourth letters of the first word are inverted, 
and the last word, consisting of five or six letters, is less distinct 
than the rest. It might standfor DOMINE. The meaning of 
the other letters is of course ‘Emanuel Rex Portugaliz et Algar- 
biorum. The Algarves were first conquered by the Portuguese 
about 1188, and their name is still mentioned on the coins of the 
present day. ‘The reverse of the coin bears the sphere, the 
“device of the King D. Manuel,” like the coins struck at Goa. 
The device of the sphere, by the way, is used as a symbol of the 
glorious world-wide conquests of Portugal (see pl. I, figs. 2 and 2°). 
Albuquerque died off Goa on Dec, 16th 1515, and King Em- 
manuel in 1521. From the reign of the next king, John III, 
1521-1557, between fifty and sixty coins are in the collection. 
The first kind, probably the Soldo (size 24mm. = }2 in; weight 
3.2 to 3.9 grammes), is of a very clear stamp, bearing on the ob- 
verse a cross, and around it the inscription 
IGA: tll: POR: ET: AL: R., 
i.e. loannes III Portugaliz et Alzarbiorum Rex, on the reverse 
the usual sphere. This tin coin therefore tallies exactly with 
the description of the gold, silver and copper coins struck at 
Goa, which bore on the one side ‘‘a cross of the Order of Christ, 
on the other a sphere—the device of the King D. Manuel.” Of 
this coin there are only three specimens (pl. Il, figs. 9 and 9°) 
Another kind, of which there are fifteen specimens, resem- 
bles this last in all details except that it is of a much ruder make 
and that the cross is slightly different : thus 
R. A. Soc. No. 39, 1903. 
