A Portuguese coin – or is it? Some help needed

I would appreciate some help in identifying this coin.


On the obverse the text on the rim reads:

FRIDERICUS D : G : D S(?) : E : N/H(?) : P(?)


The text on reverse side reads:

Center: XVI REIS DA

Rim: VIRTV GLORIA MERC 6Z3 :



The denomination, 16 Reis, makes me think of Portugal, but the name, Fridericus, sounds german.

Thank you very much in advance :smile

 

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Thanks, I burnt my breakfast looking for it. Tough one.

 

Oh, no need to thank me :goof:

 

I will e-mail the pictures to someone. Knowing this person as I do, I should have a reply in about two weeks.

 

Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp 1/16th Reichsthaler 1623
Friedrich III

http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=409295&AucID=305&Lot=2374

I don't see it in Krause.

 

That's very nice of you, thanks :smile

 

Yes, I think you found it, or at least a coin very similar. But there´s some differences. The center of my coins reverse side reads XVI REIS DA *dott*, on the coin you found, it reads XVI REIS DAL *dott* I dont know if that means anything? But thank you very much, now at least I have an idea of what it is.

 

Same type coin is here: http://www.muenzauktion.com/loebbers/item.php5?id=80823002

 

I see Friederich was a bit drunk when the portrait was made