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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1968703, member: 4373&quot;]Obtained a rather interesting overstruck coin for my world overstruck collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is from Azores - a Portuguese colony which is about 1000 miles from Portugal. As of why Portugese coinage was not used and Azores decided to have her own coinage, I do not know.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1027520.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a Azores 1795 10 reals overstruck over Portugal 1791 - 1799 5 reals. If I am not mistaken, essentially all Azores denomination during this time was doubled using the same copper content, i.e. 5 reals got overstruck as 10 reals, 10 reals as 20 reals.&nbsp; Maybe there was a critcial shortage of coins and therefore a fair number had to be imported from Portugal and then re-denomitized? </p><p><br /></p><p>Would like to know the history of this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of my overstruck coin collection can be seen here: </p><p><a href="http://gxseries.com/numis/overstrike/world_overstrike.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gxseries.com/numis/overstrike/world_overstrike.htm" rel="nofollow">http://gxseries.com/numis/overstrike/world_overstrike.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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