The first coins known in Venezuela were brought by the conquerors in 1498, but the lack of their production and trade during the XVI century, made the pearls as one way of payment and their value depended from...
History of the money in Brazil 1 - Brazil as Portuguese colony 1.2 First Mint House 1694-1749 In 1694, it is inaugurated, in Salvador, Bahia, the first Mint House in Brazil. Destined to remint the coins which...
Hello all! A friend of mine, collector and researcher, wrote recently, after seeing one coin in my auctions: Hello Francisco, I have always appreciated learning from you. I specialize in Portuguese colonial...
Gram 25? Gram 10? LEI 900? LEI 835? What do those numbers mean in coins from Venezuela? Let me explain it easy in order to everybody could understand; gram and the number beside mean the coin’s weight in gram,...
As a dealer lets me try to explain a little of the Brazilian notes.The series of the notes are going from 000.001 to 100.000.Being the largest number, one hundred thousand, we wont find the note 111,111...
History of the money in Brazil 2 - Brazil elevated to United Kingdom with Portugal and Algarves In 1818, always to assist to the government's expenses, the Bank of Brazil started to emit without ballast, also...
History of the money in Brazil 1 - Brazil as Portuguese colony 1.3 D. Jose up to D. Joao as Prince regent During the reign of D. Jose I (1750-1777), the Mints of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia coined gold "escudos"...
History of the money in Brazil Because a great community interested in the Brazilian coins, I will try without a lot of ambition, an unpretentious report of the history of our money. I divided in four main...
History of the money in Brazil 1 - Brazil as Portuguese colony 1.4 The Napoleonic war and the transfer of the Portuguese Royal family. In 1808, as a consequence of the arrival of the Napoleonic war to...
4 - Second Empire 4.2 - First monetary system. The first monetary system (1831-1833), still in the Regency, maintained the form adopted since the discovery of Brazil, in the Colonial and United Kingdom...
