Brazil

CNG 100, Lot: 578. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRAZIL, Colonial. Pedro II o Pacífico (the Pacific). King of Portugal, 1683-1706. AV 4000 Réis (28mm, 8.15 g, 12h). Rio de Janeiro mint. Dated 1699. Crowned coat-of-arms, • 4000 • to left; to right, three rosettes with pellets flanking / Voided cross within quadrilobe; arches ending in trefoils. KM 98; Friedberg 21. Choice EF, lustrous.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, July 1988.