Since 1966, I have been a coin dealer specializing in Asian, particularly Chinese, and African coins, books, and ethnographic monies. Visit my website to view my coins and books for sale, as well as …

Today, Thailand is a prolific issuer of commemorative coinage. Prior to the 1860s, her coinage consisted of round balls of silver and gold, similar to musket balls, called pod duang, and though not listed or …

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It is hard to overstate the problem. The current market is overrun with fakes of ancient Chinese knife, spade, cash, and related cast bronze objects. Since about 1985 forgers in the PRC have developed …

EAST ASIA (except China) This is perhaps the largest for-sale offering of Asian numismatic titles. Listings are bibliographic by country and include useful titles not currently in stock. Use the buttons …

Although examples are known from the T'ang Dynasty or earlier, the main period of sycee use was c. 1750-1933. Cribb quotes J.R. Morrison (1832) in defining . . .

COINS OF HINDU SOUTHEAST ASIA 450-800 AD We are only beginning to make sense of the early indigenous mainland Southeast Asian coin series. The prototype issue, a silver Conch/Temple piece …

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Offered below is the collection of the late Anton Fox, plus some additions from my own stock. The Fox collection is possibly the best collection of Cambodia ever formed.

Cribb quotes S. Sarai (JNSI 1971 p.90-104) in attributing the first Cambodian coinage to the usurper Kan (1499-1505, or 1512-26), and the traveler Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio in 1595 as finding …