NEW BOOK: NUMISMATICS AND METAMORPHOSIS

Title: “Numismática y Metamorfosis: La reacuñación de los patacones de las Provincias del Río de la Plata en Brasil” (“Numismatics and Metamorphosis: the overstrike on the crowns of Provincias del Río de la Plata in Brazil”).

Author: Horacio Morero (ex president of Instituto Uruguayo de Numismática).

Edited by the Federación de Entidades Numismáticas y Medallísticas Argentinas (FENyMA) in Argentina.

Language: Spanish, 68 pages.

This study was the winner of the “Alberto J. (Coco) Derman” 2015 prize awarded by FENyMA.

Theme: this book is the first comprehensive study about the route, followed in Brazil, of the “patacones” (8 reales and 8 soles) of the Provincias del Río de la Plata struck in the Potosí mint in 1813 and 1815. Morero studies and catalogues the River Plate “patacones” that were used as host coin of the 960 reis struck in Brazil, in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro house mints. Also, he estimates the number of overstruck “patacones”, arriving to a very important conclusion: near 28% of the 1813 and 1815 mintage “disappeared” in Brazil (near 500,000 coins in relation to 1,800,000 coins minted in Potosi).

The first edition was released in August and is sold out.

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