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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jcm, post: 3249449, member: 72567&quot;]Xiang Fu Tong Bao 祥符通寶</p><p>Javanese imitation in lead or pewter.</p><p>Ex Gibbs, ex Moquette </p><p><br /></p><p>Jean Pierre Moquette was the preeminent collector of Dutch East Indoes coins in the late 1800&#039;s to early 1900&#039;s. His collection formed the basis of the Indonesian National Museum&#039;s coin cabinet. His publications on Dutch East Indian coins is the basis of the other two standards on this series by Bucknill and Scholten. It is not more widely known as it was serialized in an East Indian scholarly journal from 1907-12 in Dutch and never reprinted. I have a photocopy that I made in 1997 at a nickel a page. He also reorganized the postal system in the Netherlands East Indies. </p><p><br /></p><p>Howard Gibbs was a British collector of East Asian coins, who amassed a huge collection. It was broken up and sold off in chunks back in the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is a Javanese copy of a Northern Sung Dynasty Chinese coin in lead or pewter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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