NRC479 - Pillar dollars (NVD)
Correio da Azia
Coin Heritage
Coin TypePillar dollars
Country of OriginUnidentified
Date NVD
Coin Details
Weight 33.07g
Condition Poor
Date Found 1/07/2011
Museum Reference
Registration Number 479
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
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...