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Thanks JecZ I did not know that. This is the last coin I picked up. Issuer: Portugal King : Joseph I (Jose I) (1750-1777) Type: Standard circulation coins Years: 1752-1777 Value: 120 Reis = 6 Vintens Currency: Real (1517-1835) Composition: Silver (.9167) Weight: 3.67 g Diameter: 24.5 mm Demonetized: Yes References: Gomes Jo 23 (I think) KM 239 Mintage: Unknow.   The coin has no date. It was minted during the reign of Dom Joseph I Born 6 June 1714 - Died 24 February 1777), who was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777. Joseph succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1750, when he was 36 years old, and almost immediately placed effective power in the hands of Sebastião Jose de Carvalho e Melo (Marquis de Pombal). The history of Joseph's reign is really that of the Marquis of Pombal. Joseph allowed the Marquis of Pombal to consolidate power and rebuild Lisbon (after the 1755 earthquake). Marquis de Pombal for all intent was the power behind the king. The earthquake caused King Joseph to develop claustrophobia, refusing to live in a walled building ever again. Afterwards, Joseph moved his court into a series of tents. A new palace was built for him in Lisbon in the aftermath of the earthquake, but this was left uncompleted. Joseph died in 1777 and was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Queen Dona Maria I (who went insane, her madness was first officially noticed in 1786, when she had to be carried back to her apartments in a state of delirium and got worse from there). And pretty much the Portuguese monarchy got worse after that. Edited by hfjacinto
01/20/2025 8:14 pm
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Good history and nice coin, hfjacinto!  Errers and Varietys.
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This is the last coin I picked up... Fantastic! |
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Thanks all! I was pretty happy with what I was able to pick up. This thread will probably go dormant unless I find something locally.
Thanks again for letting me share the history and coins of my birth country.
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A few months ago, I posted pictures of Ceramic coins made for Gaia. I was doing an internet search and found this PDF. Link: https://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/fi...os/14899.pdfThis is about the company: The company Electro-Ceramic Candal, founded in 1914 and in operation until the late 1980s, today's business park, Candal Park, SA, was an important ceramic production company of the city of Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal), either by the diverse number of products it produced, .....
We intend to contribute towards the preservation of memory and towards the marketing of the industrial and cultural heritage left to us by Electro-Ceramics, towards the study and the collection's characterization, which is composed by the Candal Park's own administrative facilities...; The production of electrical apparatus, incomplete parts of electric switchboards, telephony appliance, domestic pottery, coins minted out of porcelain and other ceramic objects,..The part on the coins is copied below: "The mintage of porcelain coins is noteworthy of recognition, due to its significance and high relevance. After the First World War, the nation had a generalized lack of coins for change, namely of 1, 2, 4 and 10 cents. For this reason, municipalities were authorized to issue paper notes, who would be rendered useless after a few uses, due to the lack of paper quality. Thus, the Gaia municipality placed an order to the E.C. for ceramic coins. The coins had a crown with King Ramiro's mural in the backside, and at the end, the year. On the front and middle, the amount and the unit: cents (centavos). By the end of 1922, the Tax office, by command of the Portuguese Bank, began collecting the coins once again. The municipality proceeded onto the exchange of the coins which were active in its treasury (Saraiva, 1985). "Edited by hfjacinto
02/05/2025 3:35 pm
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I just took some new pics of my 1856 500 reis. I hope you don't mind if I add it in here.  |
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Very nice! That is one I don't have,
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Nice adds to your Portugal coin collection over the past few weeks! I've been a bit neglectful about my time on the forum lately and I've apparently missed a lot of stuff...
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Very nice addition, triggersmob. Errers and Varietys.
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Very nice! |
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Great additions, hfjacinto.
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A few more updated pictures of some of my early Portugal coins. 1852 10 reis  1883 20 reis  1884 20 reis  1892 20 reis  |
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