Goa 1798 pardao

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 42196

This specimen was lot 42196 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $408. The catalog description^[1] noted, "INDIA. Portuguese India. Goa. Pardao (300 Reis), 1798. Maria I. NGC AU-53." The Portuguese were the first European power to make direct contact with India. They concentrated on trade but were not above piracy or political meddling if the opportunity arose. They conquered or dominated a good part of India in the sixteenth century but gradually had to yield to others, especially the British. By the eighteenth century, Portuguese holdings were limited to Diu, Damao and Goa. Each had a mint which struck hammered coinage until the 1860's. This type is listed in the SCWC for 1796-1806.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 5.84-5.95 g, 0.917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-204; Gomes-33.03.

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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