Two Rare Mozambique Issues

CNG 100, Lot: 617. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2503. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL AFRICA, Portuguese. Mozambique. José I o Reformador (the Reformer). 1750-1777. AV 1000 Réis (15mm, 1.31 g, 11h). Lisboa (Lisbon) mint. Dated 1755. Crowned coat-of-arms / Voided cross within quatrefoil; lis at cusps, pellets in angles. Vaz MO.14; Gomez 05.01; KM 12; Friedberg 3. Near EF. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby’s (2 October 1986), lot 260.