Brazil 1754 4000 reis

Heritage sale 3026, lot 23750

This specimen was lot 23750 in Heritage sale 3026 (Long Beach, October 2013), where it sold for $1,175. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Jose I gold 4000 Reis 1754/3, Uncirculated Details - Surface Hairlines NGC. 'Iosephus Dominvs' type. Cleaned long ago. An interesting 4/3 overdate. From The RLM Collection, Part II." The type was struck 1751-77 without mintmark. Later types exist dated 1778-1822. It is the largest of the "moedas provinciales" series and the only one that can be called somewhat common.

Recorded mintage: 6,248.

Specification: 8.07 g, 0.917 fine gold, .237 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM 171.1, Russo-296, Gomes-63.05.

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.
• 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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