Soverign Issuer Carlos III or IV
Coin TypeEight Reales, Fragment
Country of OriginSpanish America
Weight 6.39g
Composition Silver
Condition Portrait F
Date Found 9/5/2009
Registration Number 409
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...