Porcelain Gambling Token
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3264 x 2448 px | 27.6 x 20.7 cm | 10.9 x 8.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
7 November 2006More 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