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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4552492, member: 102103&quot;]Day 79:&nbsp; Honestly, when I started this diary, I didn&#039;t know the shelter-in-place would</p><p>drag on for quite so long.&nbsp; Some things are starting to open up, and others (like </p><p>schools for my kids) aren&#039;t even sure if they will be opening up by the fall.&nbsp; So this</p><p>thread has dragged on for a while too.&nbsp; If people are still enjoying it, I can keep </p><p>posting indefinitely, though I&#039;ve already posted most of my good stuff.&nbsp; I still have</p><p>quite a bit of unsorted stuff I can photograph and post.&nbsp; For example, my &quot;early </p><p>1800s loose coppers&quot; bin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127165[/ATTACH] </p><p>Anyway, thanks for reading, and let me know if you&#039;ve all had enough!</p><p><br /></p><p>Today:&nbsp; 2 Empire of Brazilian copper 40 réis, with and without 20 réis counterstamp</p><p>Top:&nbsp; 40 réis, 1827&nbsp; </p><p>Bottom:&nbsp; 40 réis, 1826, &quot;20&quot; réis counterstamp, 1835</p><p>The whole coin is rotated at a strange angle as the 20 countermark was not aligned</p><p>to the to the coin&#039;s orientation at all.&nbsp; You can see the counterstamp pushed through</p><p>enough to damage the pattern on the reverse too.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My understanding is that copper coinage was vastly overproduced, especially in the provinces, causing copper to not be exchangeable at par for silver coinage.&nbsp; The </p><p>government demonetized the old coppers, but allowed them to be traded in at half</p><p>face value to be counterstamped to regain legal status.&nbsp; Brazil had a lot of problems</p><p>with inflation in the 1800s (and the 1900s too!), which make for a fascinating </p><p>variety of early coinage.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127162[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1127163[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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