Trip to Central and South America

A few more for Brazil.

 

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Emperor Peter of Brazil -

 

Drop a few more before leaving Brazil,

 

We used our Suriname coin to cross into Brazil. Our guide is taking me up the Amazon river (toward the west) and are now at the “meeting of the waters” in Manaus Brazil. Two rivers join forces here (the Amazon & the Negro river). One river is very muddy brown & the other river is much more clear. We will take the left fork toward Peru & then onward to Ecuador. The right fork would take us up the Negro river directly into Columbia & we are told it could be very dangerous & the Columbia boarder guards may not be friendly.

 

1808 Counterstamped on Bolivia 8R

Our Brazil coin has paid for a big bag of ice & some Caipirinha drinks in Manaus. Caipirinha is basically Brazilian vodka & lime. It does the trick. The natives here dress in colorful feathered costumes.

 

Photos courtesy of collect89

Our guide took us through some of the jungle which is currently flooded due to the river being so high. Here is what appears to be an Amazonian pirarucu fish. However it is very colorful & sometimes God makes animals brightly colored to warn you to stay away from them. You probably do not want to be in the water with these big colorful monster fish. Don’t worry about the Piranha in the water. Even the lily pads in the Amazon will tear you up. (See the close-up of the thorns under the lily pads).

 

Interesting Brazil Rui Barbosa error coin in change.

This Brazil coin includes a special type of cud error. In this case, there was a significant misalignment of the obverse die to the collar die which caused the obverse die to be sheared at the edge. Subsequent coins were struck with the broken obverse die and they exhibit this crescent shaped cud.

BTW, prior to arriving in Manaus, we were told that the female-to-male ratio in Manaus was 8:1. While at a Manaus night club I counted the men & women present. It was not 8:1. It was only 5:1. The women were mostly very aggressive and actively looking for male friends. After visiting Manaus, I had time to reflect on the 5:1 situation. Think about it for a moment. How aggressive would men be if there was only one woman for every 8 men? I suspect that the men would be killing each other & fighting for the available women.

 

Santos Dumont the 1st man to fly across the English channel in an aircraft.

 

Made it to Ecuador.

 

I believe he also designed the aircraft that he flew across the channel. I believe he also designed & flew one of the first navigable lighter-than-air dirigibles. Unlike other balloons, his vehicle was navigable and didn't just float in the breeze. :thumb:

 

My kids in the jungle of Ecuador and nasty nose Sucre.

 

I don't know how much longer it will take me to catch up to you guys in Ecuador.

Here is an attractive Brazil silver coin (2,000 Reis). :smile

 

I just got an 1813 pillar dollar and the mint mark was from Peru. The Lima mint.

It looks just like this one but the mintmark is ME.

 

Country: COSTA RICA
Type: 10 Colones Date: 1900
Certification: NGC #3067498-019 Grade: MS 63
Coin Information:
Design: OBVERSE: Bust of Christopher Columbus ~ REVERSE: Features the national arms – three volcanoes separating two oceans, each with a sailing ship, recalling Costa Rica’s location between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The five stars above mark the fact that Costa Rica was a member of the Central American Federation during the last century.
Mint: Philadelphia, USA
Mintage: 140,000
References: KM #140 / Fr. 20
Specifications: Diameter – 21.0mm
Weight – 7.7800 g. @ 0.900 Gold = .2251 oz AGW
Acquired: Northeast Numismatics – July 2008
Providence: None
Notes:
➢ Of interest, this coin was minted in the US at the Philadelphia Mint. One of only six countries to do so with circulating gold pieces.
➢ Costa Rica has the distinction of having issued the world’s only circulating gold pieces with the likeness of Christopher Columbus.
➢ The monetary unit, “Colon”, is named for Columbus (Christopher Columbus is Cristobal Colon in Spanish)

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Being exhausted from the river trip from Brazil, I will stay in Peru & just wait for you guys to get here from Ecuador. I'm going to relax at Mancora Beach if you CT folks want to join me. You should find it easy to get to Mancora Beach from Ecuador. There are good waves but not as many people surfing here as I expected.

This 1863 Peru coin is special in my collection. It is high grade and I always wondered how such a high grade coin survived the trip from Peru to get into my collection in Connecticut. Then I discovered that the coin was actually minted in Waterbury Connecticut by the Scovil Manufacturing Company. That might explain how the coin got to CT in such good shape. :smile

I realy hate to spend it so I'm looking for some other Peru coins to pay my way at Mancora Beach.

 

More than a few coins from Peru to spend. Don't need any money, but you have to have a lot of sol.

 

A few more coins to spread around, then on to Bolivia.