Portugal 1894 500 reis
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This specimen was lot 13327 in Ponterio sale 177 (Chicago, August 2013), where it sold for $646. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGAL. 500 Reis, 1894. NGC AU-50. RARE date. Highest graded by NGC." This type was struck in Lisbon 1891-1908. King Carlos ruled from 1889 until his assassination at the hands of an anarchist in 1908. His son Manuel II ruled for only two years before he was deposed and the Republic established. The last five hundred réis piece was struck in 1910, the year the king was overthrown. This date is the key even tho 1895 and 1900 have lower mintages.
Recorded mintage: 254,000.
Specification: 12.5 g, 0.917 fine silver, .368 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM-535; Gomes-11.07.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 177: The August 2013 Chicago ANA Auction, World Coins, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2013.
- Reis, Lina, Anuário de Numismática, Moedas e notas 2010, 31ª ediçao, Lisbon: Publinummis, Lda, 2009.
- 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.
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