A Brazilian gold 20,000 reis, Minas Gerais, of Joao V, 1727

I love slabs for the way they protect coins from accidental mishaps. I have 700+ raw coins in SAFLIPS but super carefull. I am always amazed that so many AV coins are in MS condition/ considering how soft gold is/ esp. hammered coins. I never handle my coins unless when I remove them from PCV flip into SAFLIP.

 

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Thanks. I too try to handle the coins minimally, preferring to keep them in their flips. The exception, though, are the owls, which seem to invite being handled, with their curved surfaces and high relief.

Getting back to Brazilian gold coins, do you know of any source that gives mintage figures, actual or estimated?

 

Krause/ gold coinage 1600-2009 edition has mintage figures for most listed. The non listed are probably unrecorded.

 

I have an edition of Krause's Standard Catalog of World Coins, Spain, Portugal and the New World, 2002 edition. Mintage data, especially for the early coins, is scant. I'll take a look at their gold coinage, 1600-2009, reference.

Thanks

 

I have some Portuguese gold with really low mintages/
AV 2 Es. Miguel I 1830 525
AV 4 Es. Miguel I 1830 2274
AV 2 Es. Pedro IV 1827 1713
AV 1/2 Es. Joao VI 1818 270
AV 4 Es. Joao VI 1824 1553

Imagine US coins with those mintage figures....

 

You're right, low mintage figures such as these for US coinage with trigger the marketers and hype specialists in their quest to squeeze the last penny from the public.

But, the US just was much larger, with a booming economy, most of the time, in the 1800s and 1900s, so high volume minting was the necessity to sustain demand and economic growth.