Gold Coins of Brazil 10 Mil Reis Gold Coin of 1876, Emperor Pedro II.

Brazilian gold coins

Gold coins of Brazil

Gold Coins of Brazil 10 Mil Reis Gold Coin of 1876, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

Obverse: Bust of Pedro II as Emperor of of Brazil left. Date (1876) below.
Legend: PETRUS II D.G . C . IMP. - ET PERP . BRAS . DEF .

Reverse: Crowned Brazilian shield within wreath. Motto above.
Legend: IN HOC SI-GNO VINCES ("In this sign you will conquer!")

Mintage: 20,000 pcs.
Reference: Friedberg 122, Russo 696, KM-467.
Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 8.93 gram of Gold (.917)

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Brazil Gold Coins 6400 Reis Gold Coin of 1793, Queen Maria I.

 Brazil 6400 Reis Gold Coin, Queen Maria of Portuguese Gold Half Johanna

Brazilian coins

Brazil Gold Coins 6400 Reis Gold Coin, Maria I Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves "Maria the Mad", 1793-R Rio Mint.

Obverse: Draped bust of Maria I "the Mad" right, wearing widows veil. Date (1793.) and mint initial (R) below.
Legend: MARIA . I . D . G . PORT - ET . ALG . REGINA .

Reverse: Crowned coat-of-arms of the Portugueze Empire within foliage.

Mintage: 237,000 pcs.
Reference: Friedberg 87, Gomez 25.05, KM-226.1. R!
Weight: 14.34 gram of Gold (.917) - 0.4229 oz. AGW
Diameter: 32 mm

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Maria I of Portugal
Maria I (English: Mary I) (17 December 1734 – 20 March 1816) was Queen of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves. Known as Maria the Pious (in Portugal), or Maria the Mad (in Brazil), she was the first undisputed Queen regnant of Portugal. Her reign would be a noteworthy one. With Napoleon's European conquests, her court, then under the direction of Prince Dom João, the Prince Regent, moved to the then Portuguese colony of Brazil. Later on, Brazil would be elevated from the rank of a colony to that of a Kingdom, the Kingdom of Brazil, with the consequential formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.

Brazilian Gold Coins Peca or 6400 Reis Gold Coin of 1765, King Joseph I.

Brazilain 6400 reis gold coins

Gold Coins of Brazil 6400 Reis

Brazilian Gold Coins Peca or 6400 Reis Gold Coin of 1765, King Joseph I, minted 1765-R (Rio Mint).

Obverse: Wreathed and draped bust of Joseph I right. Date (1765.) and mint initial (R) below.
Legend: JOSEPHUS . I . D . G . PORT . ET . ALG . REX .
Reverse: Crowned coat-of-arms of the Portugueze Empire within foliage.

Reference: Friedberg 65, Gomes-55.01, KM-172.1. R!
Weight: 14.21 gram of Gold (.917) - 0.4229 oz. AGW
Diameter: 31 mm

Peca. A Portuguese gold coin of six thousand and four hundred Reis, or four Escudos, introduced in 1750, and representing a reduced form of the Dobra. It circulated extensively in Brazil and was struck at Rio and Bahia.

Joseph I of Portugal (Portuguese: José I, 6 June 1714 – 24 February 1777), "the Reformer" (Portuguese: "o Reformador"), was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 31 July 1750 until his death.
 He succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1750, when he was 36 years old, and almost immediately placed effective power in the hands of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, better known today as the Marquis of Pombal. Indeed the history of Joseph's reign is really that of Pombal himself. King Joseph also declared his eldest daughter Maria Francisca as the official heiress of the throne, and proclaimed her Princess of Brazil. By this time, the king did not believe he would have a son.
The powerful Marquis sought to overhaul all aspects of economic, social and colonial policy to make Portugal a more efficient contender with the other great powers of Europe, and thus secure his own power status as a result. A conspiracy of nobles aimed at murdering King Joseph and the Marquis gave Pombal the opportunity (some say, the pretext) to get rid of the Távora family, and to expel the Jesuits in September 1759, thus gaining control of public education and a wealth of church lands and ushering Portugal, which had been a backwater dominated by the High Aristocracy and a very conservative brand of Catholicism, into the Enlightenment age.
The reign of Joseph was also famous for the great Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, in which around 100,000 people died.
The earthquake caused Joseph to develop a severe case of claustrophobia and he was never again comfortable living within a walled building. Consequently, he moved the royal court to an extensive complex of tents in the hills of Ajuda.
The capital was eventually rebuilt at great cost, and an equestrian statue of King Joseph still dominates Lisbon's main plaza.

Brazilian Colonial Gold coin Dobra or 12800 Reis of Joao V King of Portugal, 1727 Minas mint.

Colonial Coins of Brazil

Colonial coinage of Brazil one Dobra or 12800 Reis

Brazilian Colonial Gold coin Dobra or 12800 Reis of Joao V, King of Portugal that was struck at the mint in Minas , 1727.

Material: 0.9170 Gold 0.8455 oz
Weight: 28.6800 g
Diameter: 38 mm

Dobra. A gold coin of Portugal which was first issued in the reign of Pedro I (1357-1367) and equal to 82 Soldi.
   At the beginning of the reign of John V (1706-1750) appeared the Dobra de oito Escudos, and the Dobra de quatro Escudos, valued respectively at eight and four Escudos, or 12,800 and 6400 Reis. The former coin was commonly known as the Joannes, and in the British West Indies, where they circulated extensively, this was abbreviated into Joe, the latter coin being called the half Joe. The striking of these coins ceased by virtue of a Portuguese proclamation of November 29, 1732. They gradually disappeared from circulation, and in time the half Dobras were improperly alluded to in some places as Joes instead of half Joes.
   It should be added that in 1731 a Dobra of twenty-four and another of sixteen Escudos were struck. These large gold coins are illustrated by Aragao (pi. xli. 23, 24) and described by Meili.
   In 1750, the Dobra, now rcduced to four Escudos, or 6400 Rois. received the name of Peca, and this designation continued until its abolition early in the nineteenth century.

John V of Portugal
John V (João V, 22 October 1689 – 31 July 1750), nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was King of Portugal and the Algarves. He was born in Lisbon and succeeded his father Peter II in December 1706, and was proclaimed on 1 January 1707.
His father had long suffered from lack of heirs, and the relatively new royal house of Braganza was indeed on the verge of going extinct—the king had only one surviving (though sickly) daughter from his first marriage, John's half-sister Isabel Luisa, Princess of Beira. However, after the death of his first wife, the old king remarried, and John's mother was able to produce eight more children, including John himself. When John was born, he became Prince of Brazil as the king's heir apparent, as well as the 11th Duke of Braganza.

Brazil Gold Coins 20000 Reis Gold Coin of 1851, Emperor Dom Pedro II.

Brazil 20000 Reis Gold Coin, Emperor Dom Pedro II 

Brazilian Gold Coins 20,000 Reis 

Brazil Gold Coins 20000 Reis Gold Coin of 1851, Emperor Dom Pedro II.

Obverse: Draped bust of Pedro II as Emperor of of Brazil left. Date (1851) below.
Legend: PETRUS II D.G . C . IMP. - ET PERP . BRAS . DEF .

Reverse: Crowned Brazilian shield within large wreath.
Legend:IN HOC S. VINCES . ("In this sign thou shalt conquer.")

Mint Place: Rio ., Mintage: 303,000 pcs.
Reference: Friedberg 119, Russo 670, KM-461.
Weight: 17.97 gram of  Gold (.917) - 0.5286 oz. AGW
Diameter: 30 mm

Milreis. The money of account for Portugal and Brazil. One thousand Reis are called Milreis, and one million Reis is known as a Conto di Reis. The word is derived from mille. mil. a thousand, and real, rey, a King. The Rei of Manuel (1495-1521) was a small copper coin of low value which was abolished in the sixteenth century, but multiples were retained, some of which received specific names. Thus the Tostao was one hundred Reis; the Cruzado four hundred, the Coroa five thousand, etc. A nominal gold standard has been in use in Portugal since 1854 and the gold coins consist of five and two Milreis, i.e.. five thousand and two thousand Reis respectively. In silver the Milreis consist of one thousand Reis, and there are smaller coins of silver and bronze, the lowest being a piece of one Real. Portugal imposed her monetary system on Brazil but cut the value of the unit in two. As a consequence the silver Milreis of Brazil represent a value of half of the Portuguese, and the nickel coins of 400, 200, and 100 Reis, adopted in 1906, are in the same proportion.

Brazilian Gold Coins 6400 Reis Gold Coin of 1786, Maria I & Peter III.

Brazilian Gold Coins 6400 Reis

 Brazilian Gold Coins 6400 Reis or half Johanna Gold Coin 

Brazilian Gold Coins one Pica or 6400 Reis or half Joannes Gold Coin, Maria I & Peter III, dated 1786.

Obverse: Conjoined draped (he also armored) and laureated busts of Maria I & Peter III right. She wears earrings and two brooches.
Legend: MARIA . I . ET . PETRUS . III . D . G . PORT ET . ALG . REGES . / 1786 . R
Reverse: Crowned coat-of-arms of the Portuguese Empire within foliage.

Mintage: 294,000 pcs.
Reference: Friedberg 76, Gomez 25.10, KM-199.2. R!
Weight: 14.3 gram of Gold (.917) - 0.4229 oz. AGW
Diameter: 32 mm

Joannes. A gold coin of Portugal, first issued in 1722 under John V from which ruler it obtains it name. Conf. Dobra; and for an account of its underrating see Chalmers (pp. 82, 396).

Maria I of Portugal
Maria I (English: Mary I) (17 December 1734 – 20 March 1816) was Queen of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves. Known as Maria the Pious (in Portugal), or Maria the Mad (in Brazil), she was the first undisputed Queen regnant of Portugal. Her reign would be a noteworthy one. With Napoleon's European conquests, her court, then under the direction of Prince Dom João, the Prince Regent, moved to the then Portuguese colony of Brazil. Later on, Brazil would be elevated from the rank of a colony to that of a Kingdom, the Kingdom of Brazil, with the consequential formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.

Peter III of Portugal
Peter III (Portuguese: Pedro III (5 July 1717 – 25 May 1786) became King of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves by the accession of his wife and niece Queen Maria I in 1777, and co-reigned alongside her until his death.