Small Xian Fu Yuan Bao cash. 20mm, 1.19 grams. cf.Zeno 198226.

High quality and scarce this nice.

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 (2012:33) and Mitchiner (2012:24-23) they were probably produced in southern Sumatra, in the region of Palembang, and imitated Song dynasty Chinese coins.