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NRC44 - 20 Reales (1809)

Correio da Azia

 20 Reales

Coin Heritage

Mint Mark AI

Province Mint Madrid

Soverign Issuer Joseph Napoleon

Coin Type20 Reales

Country of OriginSpain

Date 1809

Coin Details

Weight 20.06g

Condition a F

Museum Reference

Registration Number 44

Map of shipwreck

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...