Coins, Historical Medals & Paper Money

MINAS GERAIS, Morro Velho, zinc 80 Réis, 1848, 38mm (Rulau E 11). Fine, rare £240-300

The Morro Velho gold mine complex, located near Nova Lima in Minas Gerais province and opened in 1835, is the world’s oldest continuously worked mine. These tokens were used to pay the slaves who worked there – slavery itself was abolished in Brazil in 1888