Brazil 1726-M 2000 reis
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This specimen was lot 23240 in Heritage sale 3024 (Chicago, April 2013), where it sold for $8,225. The catalog description[1] noted, "João V 2000 Reis 1726-M, XF Details NGC, surface hairlines. Although cleaned, fields are problem free. Well centered strike. Rare. From The RLM Collection." This type was struck at the Minas Gerais mint 1724-27 and at Bahia 1714-25 and at Rio 1723-26 (KM 112). This is the rarest of the three mints and the rarest 2,000 réis of the eighteenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5.37 g, .917 fine gold, .158 oz AGW.
Catalog reference: KM 114, Russo-238, Gomes-97.03.
- Amato, Claudio, Irlei S. Neves and Arnaldo Russo, Livro das Moedas do Brasil, 12a ed. Sao Paulo, 2008.
- 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.
- 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.
- Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, Standard Catalog of World Coins: Spain, Portugal and the New World, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
- Pimentel, Alvaro Mendes, Catálogo de Moedas Brasileiras de 1643 a 1962, 9a Ed., Rio de Janeiro, 1962.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3024, featuring the Kairos and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collections, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.
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