NRC413 - Eight Reales, Fragment
Correio da Azia
Coin Heritage
Coin TypeEight Reales, Fragment
Country of OriginSpanish America
Coin Details
Weight 8.12g
Composition Silver
Date Found 9/5/2009
Museum Reference
Registration Number 413
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
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...