Brazil 1745-B 6400 reis

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from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 20053
photo courtesy Stack's-Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 20053 in Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $1,560. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRAZIL. 6,400 Reis, 1745-B. Joao V (1706-50). PCGS Genuine--Cleaned, AU Details Secure Holder. Better mint than the more commonly seen Rio mint mark. Lightly cleaned with a few scattered marks otherwise quite a wholesome example with luster in the protected areas." This type was struck 1731-50 and is among the more available colonial gold coins of Brazil, altho Bahia mint issues are scarcer and of lower quality than those of Rio.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 14.34 g, 0.917 fine gold, .423 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: Fr-51; KM-151; LDMB-O145.

Source:

  • Pimentel, Alvaro Mendes, Catálogo de Moedas Brasileiras de 1643 a 1962, 9a Ed., Rio de Janeiro, 1962.
  • Amato, Claudio, and Irlei S. Neves, Livro das Moedas do Brasil, 14a ed. Sao Paulo, 2015.
  • 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.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

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