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Auction: CSS86B - The Prestigious Academic Reference Collection Of The Late Dr Werner Burger - Part 2
Lot: 1300

Siam, a group of 18x 17th-20th century porcelain gambling tokens, the country's metallic content of the official coins exceeded their face values so traders melted and exported the coins for profit faster than they could be minted, hence the lack of small denomination coinage gave rise to such tokens in gambling houses, and eventually its use spread to everyday transactions, Very fine to extremely fine, some of the tokens are chipped, but the colours are well preserved. an interesting lot (18) [49]


17至20世紀泰國瓷製籌碼一組18枚，當時官方錢幣的金屬含量遠超錢幣的面值，因此商人熔化錢幣，出口轉銷以賺取更多利潤，由於缺乏小額錢幣，賭場中出現了這種代幣，並擴展到日常交易之用，VF至EF品相，部分籌碼有缺，但顏色保存完好。 有趣的一組

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