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August 2018 Hong Kong Auction - Sess. A-D 6-8 Aug 2018
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MALAYSIA. Kedah. Tin Animal Money, ND (ca. Mid-18th Century). Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Zanial Abidin Muassam Shah (1710-73).
101.06 mm; 29.47 gms. SS-20c. VERY RARE to find fully intact. Cockerel perched on six rings. The cock was worth five cents of the Spanish Dollar while each attached ring was worth an additional cent of value. The rings were broken off for small transactions and used as one cent pieces. These circulated as late as the 1850's when the rings were worth ten pieces of the Singapore Merchants one Keping tokens. Deeply toned with minor surface oxidation. Quite attractive and very interesting. VERY FINE.
From an Advanced Collection of Primitive Monies.
101.06 mm; 29.47 gms. SS-20c. VERY RARE to find fully intact. Cockerel perched on six rings. The cock was worth five cents of the Spanish Dollar while each attached ring was worth an additional cent of value. The rings were broken off for small transactions and used as one cent pieces. These circulated as late as the 1850's when the rings were worth ten pieces of the Singapore Merchants one Keping tokens. Deeply toned with minor surface oxidation. Quite attractive and very interesting. VERY FINE.
From an Advanced Collection of Primitive Monies.
Ex: Hans M.F. Schulman auction July 7-9, 1970 Lot # 1285 (with lot tag and old photograph).
Estimate: $500.00- $700.00