Province Mint Unidentified
Soverign Issuer Fernando VII
Coin Type8 Reales
Country of OriginSpanish America
Weight 13.98g
Composition Silver
Condition F/gF
Date Found 3/5/2004
Registration Number 35
ANCODS %
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...