Gold is one of the best “stamps” of wealth of all times. People who had gold in the past were obviously wealthy and today, gold is still much appreciated although our currency is no longer made out of gold. If any kind of old coins can be really expensive these days, just imagine about the prices old gold coins could have! There are people who enjoy collecting gold coins although they don’t do it in order to get rich. They mostly trade what they have for what they want more and sometimes, they even spend huge amounts of money for a few small coins. It might be expensive, but it’s a really interesting hobby. Since gold is still so expensive, there are well founded reasons for us to believe that it will be this way for a very long time if not forever. So getting gold coins could start as a simple hobby and no real collector would ever sell his or her collection, but jut as an idea, with a substantial collection, one could make a fortune. Let’s see what kind of gold coins there can be found in Portugal.

Over the history, in Portugal there were coins called reis, others were called cruzados. There were also dobra coins and peca and escudos were also part of their currency. Today, some of these coins can be even bought online. The price for 100 escudos from 1427-1486, which is the name and the value of one of those coins, is about $800. For the 200 escudos coin dated sometime in the same period as the same escudos mentioned before, you would have to pay $910. Of course, there are also coins you can bid for on various websites. For a reis with the faces of Maria I and Pedro III, released in 1785, the bids can go up to over $3,000.

Many of the gold coins hobbyists don’t care about the amount of money they have to pay on these coins as long as they can get their hands on them. Usually, the most expensive coins are also the rarest. By analyzing the coins, we can actually see a part of a country’s history simply by reading the year or by seeing the faces graved on them. It’s an expensive hobby, but if you can afford it and if you really are enthusiastic about it, then nothing can stop you.

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