Empire of Brazil.

I don't want to hide my coins from other people. I want to tell them about my coins, about a history of these coins. If I have any interesting information about coins & history, I must to tell my friends about it! It's my life style.

 

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I wish that I had more time to sort & photograph coins to share with you.
Here is a neat Brazil counterstamped coin & a few others from my Photobucket.
Someplace I have an AU coin like Tonedcoins 1913 1000 Reis. As I recall, those coins are silver and very (VERY) thick [Like the thickness of a US silver dollar].

 

Interesting coin: 20 over 80. This counter mark was made during the period of the high inflation in the middle of the 1830's.

 

With that introduction I have to comment. You have many beautiful Brazilian coins. The reis continued until around 1942 when it was replaced with the cruzero, this was replaced with the "new cruzero" and then with the "real".

I have the website: "coins and history .com" and like youself I try to use coins to illustrate history -&- research the history behind my coins. http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Brazil_1.html

Also Brazil was a colony of Portugal until 1815, and then became an equal part of the Empire. It became an Independent Empire in 1822 and then a Republic in 1889.

Like yourself, I like Brazil and am currently working on getting some representative types to illustrate Brazilian history. I do not even hope to obtain all the Brazilian types as some are quite rare in any condition. It seems that the 960's [960 reis] are very popular in Brazil: kind of like Morgan dollars in the USA, or possibly czarist rubles in Russia?

Also I'm quite found of the pecas and bought my first 1 &1/2 years ago. These are 6400 reis coins.
This is a common date one even in mint state. It's historically significant in that it served as the gold trade coin for much of the New World & USA in the late 18th & early 19th centuries. Also it tends to be one of the cheapest 18th century gold coins of it's size, no doubt due to it's popularity.

 

Recently back ...,,

 

Recently back from NGC...,, $50 at he local pawn shop raw. He had the 500 and 1000 also, and while the 500 was also a gem it's way too common to waste money grading, and the 1000 wasn't quite as nice, maybe an MS62, also a waste of money to grade.

 

There's the other 2K reis type: that of 1912-1913 (but dated '13) with the "divided legend" being auctioned this week, also in a NGC-65 slab. Estimate is $75. No idea what It'll bring tho.