8 Reales Coin Type

Correio da Azia Wrecks

  • Country of Origin Spanish America

  • Province Mint Unidentified

  • Soverign Issuer Carlos IV

  • Date 18(??)

Museum Reference

  • Museum Reference NRC34 - 8 Reales (18(??))

  • Registration Number 34

Coin information

Full information about the 8 Reales
Coin Name 8 Reales
Country of Origin Spanish America
Province Mint Unidentified
Soverign Issuer Carlos IV
Date 18(??)
Composition Silver
Ship Correio da Azia
Date Found 28/9/95
Other Details Near main coin concretion, surface collection
Museum reference NRC34 - 8 Reales (18(??))
Registration Number 34
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/numismatics/nrc34-8-reales-18
Map of shipwreck

Correio da Azia

The Correio da Azia built in Portugal, owned by Joao Nunes da Silveira. The Master of the Correio da Azia was Joao Joaquim de Freitas, The Correio da Azia was lost 1816/11/25 at Point Cloates.

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 China in...

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