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Auction: 3017 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 172

China, Shianxi Province, one ounce ingot (2), 36.7g., 37.02g., undated, probably issued prior to 1830, punch reads XiXi (double joy) (Cribb XXIV, Group D, 221), the first with one lip bent, good very fine; the second, fine (2) Estimate £ 80-120 These ingots were intended to be wedding gifts and hence were struck with invocations to good fortune, however, they also circulated as money.

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