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''Recorded mintage:'' 424,000.
 
''Recorded mintage:'' 424,000.
  
''Specification:'' 14.34 g, .917 fine gold, .422 troy oz AGW.
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''Specification:'' 14.34 g, 0.917 fine gold, .422 troy oz AGW.
  
 
''Catalog reference:'' KM 172.2, Russo-436, Gomes-55.20.
 
''Catalog reference:'' KM 172.2, Russo-436, Gomes-55.20.

Revision as of 16:00, 4 August 2023

Heritage sale 3026, lot 23827
Brazil 1768R 6400 reis rev H3026-23827.jpg

This specimen was lot 23827 in Heritage sale 3026 (Long Beach, October 2013), where it sold for $1,292.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "Jose I gold 6400 Reis 1768-R, AU58 NGC. Briefly passing in and out of circulation with natural pebbly luster from lightly rusted dies. From The RLM Collection, Part II." This type was struck 1751-77 and is among the more available colonial gold coins of Brazil.

Recorded mintage: 424,000.

Specification: 14.34 g, 0.917 fine gold, .422 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM 172.2, Russo-436, Gomes-55.20.

Source:

  • [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and Scott Cordry, Heritage Signature Auction 3026, World & Ancient Coins, featuring the RLM Collection, Part Two, the Nogales Collection and the Goetz Medals Die Archive, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Pimentel, Alvaro Mendes, Catálogo de Moedas Brasileiras de 1643 a 1962, 9a Ed., Rio de Janeiro, 1962.

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