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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8226351, member: 110226&quot;]I like the Picasso.&nbsp; My tastes span a wide range of art, from classicism, to baroque, to romantic, impressionism, expressionism, representational and abstract.&nbsp; Each period expresses itself through art, music, and, yes, coinage.&nbsp; I appreciate all of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Picasso work is his way of challenging our senses of proportionality, perspective and composition, suggesting that artistic reality can be interpreted at different levels.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, having said that, I do have some reservations about mounting a urinal on the wall in a gallery, but I think that is probably a social statement by the artist. Art is dynamic and ever-changing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But getting back to the subject of this excellent thread, here is a coin from Brazil, when it was a colony of Portugal.&nbsp; This is a 640 reis, 1701, from Pernambuco, located on the northeast coast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brazil was not a silver-rich colony, unlike the Andean Spanish Viceroy of Peru.&nbsp; On the contrary, Brazil was rich in placer gold deposits.&nbsp; Silver basically had to be imported from other sources.&nbsp; Because of this situation, silver coinage, with the possible exception for the overstruck 960 and 640 reis of the 19th century, was almost always in short supply, compared to gold and bronze coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The the 640 reis was struck in Pernambuco from 1699 to 1702. That last date, 1702, is extremely rare.&nbsp; In the late 1980s a hoard of these coins, dated 1701 with a few dated 1699 and 1700, hit the market.&nbsp; Many were is very nice grade, suggesting that they came from a buried hoard.&nbsp; The market pretty quickly absorbed these coins, and now they are quite difficult to locate.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the coins, which I have owned for around 30 years.&nbsp; The dies for these coins, I believe, came from Portugal.</p><p><br /></p><p>KM 90.2</p><p><br /></p><p>18.66 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445588[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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