A Rather Interesting Overstruck Coin From Azores 1795

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gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 08/15/2014 9:59 pm Obtained a rather interesting overstruck coin for my world overstruck collection. This coin is from Azores - a Portuguese colony which is about 1000 miles from Portugal. As of why Portugese coinage was not used and Azores decided to have her own coinage, I do not know. This is a Azores 1795 10 reals overstruck over Portugal 1791 - 1799 5 reals. If I am not mistaken, essentially all Azores denomination during this time was doubled using the same copper content, i.e. 5 reals got overstruck as 10 reals, 10 reals as 20 reals. Maybe there was a critcial shortage of coins and therefore a fair number had to be imported from Portugal and then re-denomitized? Would like to know the history of this. The rest of my overstruck coin collection can be seen here: http://gxseries.com/numis/overstrik...erstrike.htm My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff

BillSnyder Pillar of the Community 778 Posts	Posted 08/16/2014 09:07 am WOW! Fantastic collection! Everyone should click on and view your overstrike collection! Bill Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 08/16/2014 12:55 pm Quote: 5 reals got overstruck as 10 reals, 10 reals as 20 reals. Interesting issue--would that have amounted to some profitable seignorage for Portugal? Certainly, if they could get 10 reals worth in trade for 5 reals of their converted currency, that might explain the overstrikes? Report this Post to the Staff
dosmundos Valued Member Germany 194 Posts	Posted 08/19/2014 05:23 am Great overstrikes collection indeed. Only the BCSSA (Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Assocation) issues I would not realy consider to be an overstrike, but rather a (modern) countermark with commemorative background (at least that is how I have it filed in my curiosities collection). Report this Post to the Staff
MathieuMa Pillar of the Community France 1591 Posts	Posted 08/19/2014 10:43 am Indeed, that's a superb collection, in a very particular field ! All well documented, it's a pleasure :) Report this Post to the Staff
TJsCoins Pillar of the Community United States 3229 Posts	Posted 08/31/2014 01:09 am Very cool! Report this Post to the Staff
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