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The Unknown Chinese Cash Statue


I post below is an email received from MR. Fox of U.S.A. on Thu, 13 Apr 2000.
The email is self-explanatory. It is unlucky that I cannot contact Mr. Fox again after I have received his email.

Hello,
I recently purchased a small statue made of coins.
The previous owner thought that the coins were possibly from South East Asia. I found your web site with a coin that looks similar, but I'm not sure.. here is the link
Unknown Hsuan T'ung T'ung Pao
I don't actually have the statue in my possession at this moment,
but when I get it I will send a better picture of the coin and statue
if you are interested. If you had any information about the statue
it would also be greatly appreciated.

I have seen a few different kinds of the Chinese charm before, such as the coin sword, coin tree, coin cake and coin lantern, but I have never seen a coin statue like this one. It appeares with an antique look. I know nothing about this cash statue. I judge it with the inscriptions on the reverse of the enlarged cash images. I find that the Manchu script "Pao" looks like the Hsuan T'ung T'ung Pao cash. But it is hard to tell without being able to view the coin in person. It is strange that I cannot find any coin showing the obverse from the close-up coin images. The picture is not so clear. The style of the statue completely doesn't like the Chinese one. When I judge it with the hat, and also the colour of the strings (It should be red.) using for the statue, I find that this item probably is an Anamanese charm or Chinese charm of aboriginal tribesman in Yunnan Province.
If you know anything or If you want to share your knowledge and enthusism in this hobby, feel free to drop me a line. Thank you in advance. YKL

Additional Information

From Mr.Vladimir Belyaev of Chinese Coinage Web Site
on 17 April, 2000.

I see that you placed new page at your web site
http://members.xoom.com/ykleungx/Cstatue.html.
I believe that such figures are from Indonesia and were made
from Chinese cash coins, probably by local Chinese communities.

Please compare with my page 'Cash' Woman

Sincerely,

Vladimir

Thanks indeed! YKL


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