Mint Mark TH
Province Mint Mexico
Soverign Issuer Carlos IV
Coin Type8 Reales
Country of OriginSpanish America
Date 1804
Weight 23.91g
Composition Silver
Condition VG
Date Found 1/5/2004
Registration Number 44
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...