8 Reales Coin Type

Correio da Azia Wrecks

  • Province Mint Unidentified

  • Soverign Issuer Fernando VII

Museum Reference

  • Museum Reference NRC9A - 8 Reales

  • Registration Number 9

Coin information

Full information about the 8 Reales
Coin Name 8 Reales
Province Mint Unidentified
Soverign Issuer Fernando VII
Composition Silver
Weight 6.57g
Ship Correio da Azia
Date Found 1/5/04
Other Details Near main coin concretion, surface collection. Coin Roll NRC 9 A-E B.C.D.E Spanish America An unidentified fragment
Museum reference NRC9A - 8 Reales
Registration Number 9
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/numismatics/nrc9a-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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