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BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (51.51g), Choice EF

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BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (51.51g), Choice EF
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This item SOLD at 2023 Jan 27 @ 15:47UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (51.51g), Robinson, Phayre-Plate III.3 (obverse only), 69mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, some extra feathers along its back, and holding a 9-leaf branch in its beak // Burmese ta-weh (for the city of Dawei in Tenasserim Province); a lovely example! Choice EF, RR. The reverse was published and its legend read by Elizabeth Moore in "Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland", in Myanmar Historical Research Journal, vol. 21 (June 2011).