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1716 4,000 reis. Rio mint. Fr-27. |
| Description: |
10.71 grams, 29.60 mm. Types as above. Warm orange highlights on medium gold surfaces.
Good lustre, an especially high grade example. ($750-1,250)A piece like this one would
make an excellent type coin for those American collectors interested in gathering foreign
coins that circulated legally in the colonial and early Federal period. This denomination
was known as a "moidore" to colonial Americans and would have been accepted in
commerce from Boston to the Caribbean, not to mention most other places in the world. Its
popularity as a world trade coin would be matched or exceeded by the "Joe"
series of 6,400 reis from later in the 18th century.From the John H. Clapp Collection;
Clapp estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942.
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| Price: |
$2,990.00 (2005-04-15) |
| Original page: |
http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lri
d=AN00019052
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