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1728 Brazil 12,800 Reis Counterstamped In Curacao To Circulate As 180 Reales, PCGS VF20

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PCGS - Six countermarks. One massive gold coin. 20.58 grams. Curaçao stamped this 1728 Brazil 12,800 Reis six times to circulate as 180 reales. In PCGS VF20, it just fetched $390,400 at Stack's Bowers.

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Wow, what a coin! What a story! This one is just dripping history.
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Very cool and interesting!
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Looks to me like the countermark locations were chosen to try to prevent further edge shaving.
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I believe that this is the host coin: https://en.numista.com/117197. The original weight would have been 28.68 g, so quite a bit of gold has been liberated from it.
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