Ingot - João VI Prince Regent Sabara Foundry

Comment

Joao VI Prince Regent gold Ingot of Sabara 1814, Prober 1814-S-2885, 30.8 grams. On his extensive work of 1990 Kurt Prober writes about this piece, "the collector Roberto Monteiro purchased this bar in Lisbon for US$10,000 as reported in March of 1986". Prober's close friend and prominent Numismatist Hans Kochmann examined the bar in 1989. Cited in Prober's 1990 publication. The countermark of the Foundry present an oval shield of Portugal having "SABARA" underneath.
From The RLM Collection, Part II