Portugal (1799-1816) 40 reis
This specimen was lot 1104 in Stephen Album internet sale 28 (Santa Rosa, CA, July 2024), where it sold for $114. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGAL: João, 1799-1816, AR 50 reis, ND(1799-1816), also known as 1/2 tostão, PCGS graded AU55, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." For some reason, Portugal struck the smaller silver denominations without dates. This forty réis (½ tostão) was accompanied by silver sixty réis (3 vinténs), eighty réis (tostão) and 120 réis (6 vinténs). The half tostão traded for fifty réis by government edict despite being marked "XXXX" and is catalogued as such in the SCWC. The practice did not end until the decimal reform of 1837. The larger silver coins were dated.
Recorded mintage: 233,417.
Specification: 0.917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-311.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Internet Auction 28, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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- (1750-77) XXXX réis = ½ tostão
- 1799 V réis
- 1799 X réis
- (1799-1816) 60 réis = 3 vinténs
- 1799 200 réis
- 1799 400 réis, João as Prince Regent
- 1799 6,400 réis
- (1816-26) XXXX réis = ½ tostão
- (1816-26) 60 réis = 3 vinténs
- Coins and currency dated 1799