NRC512 (1804)
Correio da Azia
Coin Heritage
Soverign Issuer Carlos IIII
Date 1804
Coin Details
Composition Silver
Condition aF/P
Museum Reference
Registration Number 512
Soverign Issuer Carlos IIII
Date 1804
Composition Silver
Condition aF/P
Registration Number 512
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...