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@Curtisimo, each time you write one of your great articles, it is actually is an ancient give-away to each one of us. We pounce the moment we see a new one posted. It represents hours of your time and effort (probably) as well as the resulting article. We appreciate the educational give-aways that you and the other talented CT article writers produce for us.

 

Before this thread gets inevitably moderated for having too much lawyer-love, let me just offer my two cents as I have some experience with them, having married one and having another as a best friend . My wife actually no longer practises the dark arts, but she volunteers her time on a regular basis helping terminal cancer patients with legal questions and will drafting, so it's not surprising to me to hear of "good" lawyers out there, and in fact, not surprising to hear that you're one of them, @LaCointessa. Like many other members, I've truly enjoyed your being here with us on CT, and hope to continue reading your ever enthusiastic, kind, and amusing posts for many years to come.

 

Y'all never cease to entertain me!

 

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But he is so forgettable!!! LOL I mean lovable!!!

 

A lot of great people here

 

Really? What kind of Brazilian coins do you like, or want, @LaCointessa? What period? I can send to you a lot of them.

 

Hi @Multatuli! Let's see. What kind of Brazilian coins, huh? Wanna know how much I know about Brazilian coins? This much: (zilch) So, anything. What I have are two - One is a 200 Reis 1901 and the other is 20 Reis 1869. They are both gorgeous. I don't have them photographed yet. What do you collect?

 

Well, as Brazilian, I collect all, since Portuguese colonial times to date.
I will check my doubled coins and then I will see how can I send to you.

 

Wow!!! So, I had written more before, but erased it. I was writing to say that what I am thinking of is concentrating my collecting around is this theme:

Coins from countries to which Jews fled to avoid persecution. So, Brazil is BiG on that list. That would be late 15th century. I suppose those would be basically Portuguese coins? or was Portugal still using Spanish coins? Or did they mint anything there in Brazil? I think they went from Brazil to Jamaica. It's all very interesting. I need to consult @Deacon Ray about this especially from the other end - after the time of the destruction of first temple.

But I wonder if such a collection is too expansive? After all, it would cover Colombia, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico and many European countries like Amsterdam, Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe. Heck, it would cover 20th Century Europe! Might be too wide. But how to narrow it? Decisions, decisions.

But DO let me know what interests you, please. Thank you.

 

The first coins minted in Brazil were by the Dutch during the period of domination in Pernambuco in 1645. They were siege coins. The first official mint house, by the Portuguese dates from 1695, in the old capital Salvador-Bahia. Before that, by decree of the Portuguese king D. Sebastião, if I’m not mistaken in 1565, or perhaps in 1561, authorized the circulation of some Portuguese copper coins. Informally, however, and especially in the southern provinces of the colony, Spanish and Portuguese silver coins circulated, some of them officially decreed to circulate after being countermarked between 1640 and 1688. And yes! Brazil in its colonial period received many Jews, either by exile, or fleeing from the Inquisition. Here, as always and since the beginning of the colony, persecution was much less and everyone looked more closely at Jewish practices. But in Pernambuco, during the Dutch rule, freedom of worship was so great that the first synagogue of the entire America was created there by Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca. With the expulsion of the Dutch, these Jews of Pernambuco emigrated to New Amsterdam, and today Portuguese surnames are found in Sephardic communities in New York. Many Brazilians today are descendants of exilated Jews and they have no idea...

 

Fascinating concept!

You may want to begin with a coin from the religious and ethnically tolerant Achaemenid Empire (ancient Persia).

 

Yes, indeed! And this is not only the case with Brazil. It is the case with many of the South American countries, the Caribbean and Mexico too.

 

Yes, that’s right!

 

I love these drawings that show off your coins @Deacon Ray! The artist is fabulous! Is it you? I will look at this coin.

There is no place to 'click' (can't find my 'sad' face)

i found it

 

Oh no, I'm not the artist! I'm only collaging images in PhotoShop of ancient UNESCO World Heritage treasures. Thank you anyway!

 

i could actually maybe even plan and afford this one, @Deacon Ray!

 

Oh! So this was the empire when Esther and Mordechai saved all the Jews??!??!? Yes! I must have that coin. Absolutely. Let me search for a good one.

 

It will be great to put this collection together and I will be happy to liquidate what ancients I have to do so. I do have a few nice ones you might like as well as some interesting world coins. I'm excited!