Watch List notes:

COLONIAL ISSUES, Portugese India. Filipe I o Prudente (the Prudent). King of Portugal, 1581-1598. AV São Tomé de 5 Xerafins (15mm, 3.42 g, 1h). Goa mint. Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms; G – A across field / São Tomé o Apóstolo standing left, raising hand and holding carpenter's square; S-T across field. Gomes 10.01; Vaz, Indo-Portuguese, F1.01; Friedberg 1453. VF, areas of flat strike.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Spink, July 1973.