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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moonunit, post: 3982809, member: 109522&quot;]I&#039;m generally interested in Leper coinage and wanted to procrastinate so I just spent way too much time trying to figure this out. I didn&#039;t manage to answer anything but did get somewhere. First, while I don&#039;t speak chinese the first line on each coin is &quot;Hospital&quot; (医院) and the last line is &quot;Certificate of Exchange&quot; (兑换証). Middle lines vary and I&#039;m getting different results out of the translator I used, but pretty sure it&#039;s the denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a set of leper colony money issued in China in the 1980s. See here for what&#039;s supposedly the only know copy. So maybe it was something from there but earlier?:</p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/people-s-republic-of-china/china-people-s-republic-of-china-qinhu-leprosy-hospital-five-piece-set-of-plastic-leprosy-tokens-nd-ca-1980-s-total-5/a/3032-24475.s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/people-s-republic-of-china/china-people-s-republic-of-china-qinhu-leprosy-hospital-five-piece-set-of-plastic-leprosy-tokens-nd-ca-1980-s-total-5/a/3032-24475.s" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/people-s-republic-of-china/china-people-s-republic-of-china-qinhu-leprosy-hospital-five-piece-set-of-plastic-leprosy-tokens-nd-ca-1980-s-total-5/a/3032-24475.s</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another option could be that it wasn&#039;t from China at all, instead it was an issue from one of the Malaysian colonies. For example, apparently the Sungei Buloh Settlement issued some gambling tokens and the paper money they had did have Chinese on it. There were a lot of Chinese immigrants in certain areas there so that could fit.(<a href="https://archive.org/stream/NIB2007JanVol42No01/NIB2007JanVol42No01_djvu.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/NIB2007JanVol42No01/NIB2007JanVol42No01_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/NIB2007JanVol42No01/NIB2007JanVol42No01_djvu.txt</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>As others have mentioned the most likely option though is somewhere unknown in China. I didn&#039;t find anything specific to a Leper Colony, but Wandu is the name of a historic site in Ji&#039;an, so maybe there was a hospital nearby that used the name. I couldn&#039;t find one but did find this medical article that lists the colony populations by province. If you really want to dig, perhaps the author would have a list of the facilities nearby the historic site?:</p><p><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6e41/50234163a1566227b2f554f4b3947b1e6c2c.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6e41/50234163a1566227b2f554f4b3947b1e6c2c.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6e41/50234163a1566227b2f554f4b3947b1e6c2c.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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