Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

NRC409 - Eight Reales, Fragment

Correio da Azia

Coin Heritage

Soverign Issuer Carlos III or IV

Coin TypeEight Reales, Fragment

Country of OriginSpanish America

Coin Details

Weight 6.39g

Composition Silver

Condition Portrait F

Date Found 9/5/2009

Museum Reference

Registration Number 409

Map of shipwreck

Correio da Azia

1817 Emilla was dispatched to salvage the Correio da Azia. Capt. Pedro Jose da Silva Loureiro, Pilot Luis Beltrao

The Correio da Azia was ‘coming from Lisbon to Macau against weather, seas and wind, fire, shallows and coastal dangers and errors of maps’ (de Freitas 1816) when it ran aground on Ningaloo reef on 26 November, 1816. Established by the Portuguese in 1557 and returned to...