Porcelain Gambling Token
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Robert Kawka / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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4702 x 3543 px | 39.8 x 30 cm | 15.7 x 11.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
4 October 2014More information:
HＡRamsden, 'Siamese porcelain and other tokens' (Jun Kobayagawa Co., Numismatic Publishers, Yokohama, Japan, 1911), notes that these porcelain tokens were issued in Chinese-owned gambling houses also known as hong) between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries, and circulated locally as token currency as far as the issuer's authority was trusted.In the early 19th century