Small Xian Ping Yuan Bao cash. 20mm, 1.90 grams. Zeno 334975.

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. They were probably produced in southern Sumatra, in the region of Palembang, and imitated Song dynasty Chinese coins. According to Yih (2012:33) and Mitchiner (2012:24-23), Xianping Yuanbao is one the most popularly imitated.