8 Reales Coin Type

Correio da Azia Wrecks

  • Soverign Issuer Carlos IV

Museum Reference

  • Museum Reference NRC44.004B - 8 Reales

  • Registration Number 44

Coin information

Full information about the 8 Reales
Coin Name 8 Reales
Soverign Issuer Carlos IV
Mint Mark JP
Weight 17.91g
Condition VG/F
Ship Correio da Azia
Other Details 75% remains, corroded.
Museum reference NRC44.004B - 8 Reales
Registration Number 44
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/numismatics/nrc44004b-8-reales
Map of shipwreck

Correio da Azia

The Correio da Azia built in Portugal, owned by Joao Nunes da Silveira. The Master of the Correio da Azia was Joao Joaquim de Freitas, The Correio da Azia was lost 1816/11/25 at Point Cloates.

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 China in...

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