Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
NRC519 - Eight Reales (NVD)
Correio da Azia
Coin Heritage
Soverign Issuer Fernando VII
Coin TypeEight Reales
Country of OriginSpanish America
Date NVD
Coin Details
Composition Silver
Condition Badly corroded, possibly two coins fused together.
Date Found 11/03/2016
Museum Reference
Registration Number 519
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...
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