1 Cash - Xiangfu Tongbao; Tin imitation

1 Cash - Xiangfu (Tongbao; Tin imitation) - obverse1 Cash - Xiangfu (Tongbao; Tin imitation) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Malay peninsula (Malaysia)
Type Token
Value 1 Cash
Composition Tin
Weight 1.26 g
Diameter 21.3 mm
Thickness 0.75 mm
Shape Round with a square hole
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
107818

Obverse

Four Chinese ideograms read clockwise.

Script: Chinese (traditional, regular script)

Lettering:
 祥
寶 符
 通

Unabridged legend: Xiang Fu Tong Bao

Translation: Xiangfu (3rd era of Zhenzong, 1008-1013) / Circulating currency

Reverse

Plain

Edge

Plain

Comments

This is a tin imitation of Chinese cash coin that is consistent with descriptions given by early Dutch travelers to Java and Sumatra around the 1600s. According to Yih (2012:34), a notable characteristic in the Xiangfu Tongbao imitation is the rounded shape of the radical bei 貝 in the character bao 寶.

Size and weight are not consistent between coins, for example:


See:
Mitchiner, Michael (2012). "Coin Circulation in Palembang (Sumatra), circa AD 1710 to 1825. Including Coins made in Banten, Siak, Kampar, Indragiri, Jambi, Palembang and Batavia" https://www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org/archive/ONS_213.pdf, pp: 36-37
Robinson, Frank S. (2015). Palembang Coins http://www.fsrcoin.com/palembang.html
Yih, Tjong Ding (2012) “Tin cash imitations from Palembang in the former Dutch East Indies: genuine local imitations or modern counterfeits?” https://www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org/archive/ONS_212.pdf, pp: 32-36

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