Angola 1796 10 macutas

Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 35209

The Portuguese landed in Angola in 1491 and immediately made the region a major slaving station, which trade would not end until the 1850's when the British Royal Navy interdicted the trade. The later nineteenth century was devoted to resource extraction and fending off attempts by the other colonizing powers to seize territory. This specimen was lot 35209 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $480. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ANGOLA. 10 Macutas, 1796. Maria I. PCGS AU-55." This type was struck 1796 only. The largest silver coin was a twelve macutas.

Recorded mintage: 24,000.

Specification: 14.55 g, 0.917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-36; Gomes-08.01.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• 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, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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