Mint Mark RN
Province Mint Unidentified
Soverign Issuer Joseph Napoleon
Coin Type20 Reales
Country of OriginSpain
Date -181
Weight 20.90g
Condition VG
Registration Number 44
1817 Emilla was dispatched to salvage the Correio da Azia. Capt. Pedro Jose da Silva Loureiro, Pilot Luis Beltrao
The Correio da Azia was ‘coming from Lisbon to Macau against weather, seas and wind, fire, shallows and coastal dangers and errors of maps’ (de Freitas 1816) when it ran aground on Ningaloo reef on 26 November, 1816. Established by the Portuguese in 1557 and returned to...