Afonso de Albuquerque established the first Portuguese mint in Goa taking it as an opportunity to solidify its territorial conquest, seen here are workers coining money in 1510. Afonso de Albuquerque, Duke of Goa, c. 1453 – 1515, also spelled Aphonso or Alfonso. Portuguese general, statesman, and empire builder. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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