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NRC459 - Eight Reales–Pillar dollar (1816)

Correio da Azia

Coin Heritage

Province Mint Unidentified

Soverign Issuer Fernando VII

Coin TypeEight Reales–Pillar dollar

Country of OriginUnidentified

Date 1816

Coin Details

Weight 21.51g

Composition Silver

Condition VG, Heavily corr.

Date Found 1/07/2011

Museum Reference

Registration Number 459

Numismatics

Map of shipwreck

Correio da Azia

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...

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