Portugal 1804 3 reis
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This specimen was lot 23597 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGAL. 3 Reis, 1804. Lisbon Mint. Maria I. PCGS MS-63 Brown Gold Shield. One-year type. A fully choice example of this seldom encountered issue, coined shortly before Napoleon's invasion of the country in 1807. Presently for the finest Brown piece at PCGS with a single MS-63 Red Brown." This denomination, struck intermittently in the eighteenth century, was the smallest denomination of Portugal. The last three réis was issued in 1818 (KM 354).
Recorded mintage: 123,000.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: KM-334.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2019 Chicago ANA Auction: World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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- 1802 6,400 réis = 1 peça
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