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Message:: [QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 2866145, member: 89266"]The first coins minted in Brazil were by the Dutch during the period of domination in Pernambuco in 1645. They were siege coins. The first official mint house, by the Portuguese dates from 1695, in the old capital Salvador-Bahia. Before that, by decree of the Portuguese king D. Sebastião, if I’m not mistaken in 1565, or perhaps in 1561, authorized the circulation of some Portuguese copper coins. Informally, however, and especially in the southern provinces of the colony, Spanish and Portuguese silver coins circulated, some of them officially decreed to circulate after being countermarked between 1640 and 1688. And yes! Brazil in its colonial period received many Jews, either by exile, or fleeing from the Inquisition. Here, as always and since the beginning of the colony, persecution was much less and everyone looked more closely at Jewish practices. But in Pernambuco, during the Dutch rule, freedom of worship was so great that the first synagogue of the entire America was created there by Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca. With the expulsion of the Dutch, these Jews of Pernambuco emigrated to New Amsterdam, and today Portuguese surnames are found in Sephardic communities in New York. Many Brazilians today are descendants of exilated Jews and they have no idea...[/QUOTE]