Diu 1800 10 bazarucos

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Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 42199
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This specimen was lot 42199 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $120. The catalog description[1] noted, "INDIA. Portuguese India. Goa. 10 Bazarucos, 1800. Joao as Prince Regent. NGC VF Details--Environmental Damage." This is not an issue of Goa but of the colony of Diu, to the north. This type is listed for 1799-1800 along with three, five and twenty bazarucos, all struck in tin. One rupia was 750 bazarucos.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: tin.

Catalog reference: KM-45.

Source:

  • 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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