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KIAUCHAU: brass token, AU

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Foreign Colonies Start Price:425.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
KIAUCHAU: brass token, AU
SOLD
750.00USD+ (150.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2023 Sep 14 @ 19:02UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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KIAUCHAU: brass token, 19mm token issued for Seemannshaus (Sailor's House), Tsingtau (Qingdao), without denomination of value, anchor on reverse; a very rarely encountered token, AU. The Jiaozhou (Kiautschou) Bay Leased Territory was a German leased territory in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1920. It was centered on Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula, China. The administrative center was at Qingdao. It was operated by the East Asia Squadron of the Imperial German Navy.