While Gortz & Sturgess call the Portuguese Army Lugers M/1908, the Portuguese designated them as the M/909 meaning that they were adopted in 1909. They are all long frame of the 1906 pattern. They have their own serial number range of 1 ~ 5000 and were marked over the chamber with the Crown and intertwined M2 for King Manuel II.
When Manuel II was overthrown and a republic established, the Portuguese scrubbed the chambers on some - but not all - of their Lugers having the C/M2 impression. It appears that yours was one of the scrubbed ones.
The C/M2 was done with two different stamps; an early one and another after about serial number 3000. Yours would have been the early type.
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