Foreign Coin Feature : Portugal

[Dave8472]

Just the two in this series. Very large coins to loose, one was found in the woods, the other on reclaimed marsh land.

Most were found in Kent and even the London ones are postal Kent (PAS = Greater London) as that's where I mainly detect. A few notes on the coins. All the 'copper alloy' ones are colour photoshopped in order to harmonise the colour variations in photography so they are not all brown in real life. The sizes are also scaled but there is nothing unusual in any of them that need explaining . If you spot any dating errors on the spreadsheet timeline please let me know !

Please feel free to add any Portuguese (ONLY) coin finds to my post, always interested to see others

Reference site : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/portug ... ion-1.html

Dave

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Dated : 1732. Country : Portugal. Diameter : 35mm
Type : 10 Reis : KM# 217. Material : Copper Alloy

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Dated : 1746. Country : Portugal. Diameter : 33mm
Type : 10 Reis : KM# 227. Material : Copper Alloy

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[Incognito]

A lot of Portuguese migrated after the 1755 earthquake, those coins would have still been currency then, so that might explain their being in UK.

[Dave8472]

A lot of Portuguese migrated after the 1755 earthquake, those coins would have still been currency then, so that might explain their being in UK.

Thanks, I never knew that

Dave

[Incognito]

"In 1753 only 2% of Gibraltar's population was Portuguese whereas this rose to 20% by 1814 (Borges 2000)"

And from there to UK, if not directly from Portugal. There was always trade between UK and Portugal, but not much migration to UK up till then from what I gather.

[andy1973]

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My first Portuguese coin
Had to put link cause maxed my pic count
Found in Somerset


1a by Blackadder 43, on Flickr



2a by Blackadder 43, on Flickr

[Dave8472]

That’s a great find Andy, would be well happy with that

Dave