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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1958621, member: 42034&quot;]With that introduction I have to comment.&nbsp; You have many beautiful Brazilian coins.&nbsp; The reis continued until around 1942 when it was replaced with the cruzero, this was replaced with the &quot;new cruzero&quot; and then with the &quot;real&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have the website: &quot;coins and history .com&quot;&nbsp; and like youself I try to use coins to illustrate history -&amp;- research the history behind my coins. <a href="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Brazil_1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Brazil_1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Brazil_1.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also Brazil was a colony of Portugal until 1815, and then became an equal part of the Empire.&nbsp; It became an Independent Empire in 1822 and then a Republic in 1889.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like yourself, I like Brazil and am currently working on getting some representative types to illustrate Brazilian history. I do not even hope to obtain all the Brazilian types as some are quite rare in any condition.&nbsp; It seems that the 960&#039;s [960 reis] are very popular in Brazil: kind of like Morgan dollars in the USA, or possibly czarist rubles in Russia?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I&#039;m quite found of the pecas and bought my first 1 &amp;1/2 years ago. These are 6400 reis coins.[ATTACH=full]345058[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a common date one even in mint state.&nbsp; It&#039;s historically significant in that it served as the gold trade coin for much of the New World &amp; USA in the late 18th &amp; early 19th centuries.&nbsp; Also it tends to be one of the cheapest 18th century gold coins of it&#039;s size, no doubt due to it&#039;s popularity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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