Porcelain Gambling Token
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5046 x 3466 px | 42.7 x 29.3 cm | 16.8 x 11.6 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