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Online Auction 19  20-21 Mar 2023
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Lot 1542

Starting price: 55 USD
Price realized: 550 USD
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MALAY STATES: KEDAH: Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Azilin Shah II, 1710-1778, tin cockerel money (14.98g), SS-20, 32 x 46mm, cockerel perched on two rings, Choice VF. The cockerel 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.

Estimate: 75-100 USD
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