Mint Mark C.J.
Province Mint Cadiz or Seville
Soverign Issuer Fernando VII
Coin Type8 Reales
Country of OriginSpain
Date (18)14
Weight 12.48g
Composition Silver
Date Found 9/5/2009
Registration Number 408
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...