PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

This 18th century coin was produced in the context of the conquest of the Americas by European powers, notably Portugal.

Faced with the influx of wealth, and the quantities of gold that were seized from the conquered populations, the Portuguese minted a large number of coins, such as the 1600 reis coin of King Joseph I featured here.

The quantities of gold discovered and European greed were no strangers to the famous myth of Eldorado (the golden one), which had been established very early on with the arrival of the first settlers from the old continent. Monetary gold, of great purity, comes mainly from Brazil, from the Minas Gerais region.

The Real was Brazil's first official currency, introduced by the Portuguese and Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century. The word "real" means "royal" in Portuguese, and is also the name of the currency in circulation in Portugal from 1400 until the 1900s. The Real was therefore in use from the earliest days of the colonisation of Brazil.

OBVERSE :

Description: José I laureate on the right.

Caption: JOSEPHUS-I-D.G- PORT-ET-ALG-REX
R.
1763

REVERSE :

Description: Arms of José I.

Caption: anepigraph.

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