Angola 1763 10 macutas
This specimen was lot 26378 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $384. The catalog description[1] noted, "ANGOLA. 10 Macutas, 1763. Lisbon Mint. Jose I. PCGS EF-40. An overall deeply toned example, sporting a gunmetal gray nature and a fairly strong magenta appeal. From the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection." This type was struck for Angola in 1762-63 and 1770 in Lisbon. The Portuguese landed in 1491 and immediately made the region a major slaving station, which trade would not end until the 1850's when the British Royal Navy interdicted the trade. The later nineteenth century was devoted to resource extraction and fending off attempts by the other colonizing powers to seize territory. Silver issues in the eighteenth century included two, four, six, eight, ten and twelve macutas, most of them scarce.
Recorded mintage: unknown but the most common of the three dates.
Specification: 14.55 g, 0.917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-17.
- Alberto Gomes and Francisco Antonio Magro, Moedas Portuguesas e do Território Que Hoje é Portugal: Catálogo das Moedas Cunhadas para o Continentes e Ilhas Adjacentes, para os Territórios do Ultramar e Grão-Mestres Portugueses da Ordem de Malta, 6ª Edição, Lisbon: Associação Numismática de Portugal, 2013.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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