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<p>[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 3660926, member: 102653"]I know that it is different circumstances than a true hoard like this, but the history of coinage in Southeast Asia saw coins hundreds of years old being used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to around the 14th Century there was no real coinage that saw any form of widespread use in the Indonesian islands. During the late Srivijaya era / the Majapahit Empire era there was an influx of Chinese cash coins that were moved into Indonesia for trade and the economy slowly moved from barter into coinage. The coins that were traded were nearly entirely from the Northern Song Dynasty and date to the 10th - 11th Century. Once in Indonesia, the coins saw ridiculously extensive use and were used in circulation for hundreds of years; so much so that early European explorers noted that the Indonesians used the cash coins of previous reigns, different from the mainland Chinese who mostly used current coins. This is also why the local Indonesian imitation cash coins (usually of poor tin alloy) often features titles from the Northern Song Dynasty rather than the current Ming/Qing Dynasty coins. The imitations weren't meant to be used in foreign trade and so they used what the locals were used to. There were coins issued in Indonesia into the 18th Century that read the same as ones from the 10th Century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 3660926, member: 102653"]I know that it is different circumstances than a true hoard like this, but the history of coinage in Southeast Asia saw coins hundreds of years old being used. Prior to around the 14th Century there was no real coinage that saw any form of widespread use in the Indonesian islands. During the late Srivijaya era / the Majapahit Empire era there was an influx of Chinese cash coins that were moved into Indonesia for trade and the economy slowly moved from barter into coinage. The coins that were traded were nearly entirely from the Northern Song Dynasty and date to the 10th - 11th Century. Once in Indonesia, the coins saw ridiculously extensive use and were used in circulation for hundreds of years; so much so that early European explorers noted that the Indonesians used the cash coins of previous reigns, different from the mainland Chinese who mostly used current coins. This is also why the local Indonesian imitation cash coins (usually of poor tin alloy) often features titles from the Northern Song Dynasty rather than the current Ming/Qing Dynasty coins. The imitations weren't meant to be used in foreign trade and so they used what the locals were used to. There were coins issued in Indonesia into the 18th Century that read the same as ones from the 10th Century.[/QUOTE]
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