coin;
koban
- Museum number
- C.1435
- Description
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Gold koban overstamped with the lion rampant of Holland.
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 68 millimetres
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Weight: 17.850 grammes
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Width: 38 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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小判 (Sakuraki et al, 2010, catalogue entry in Japanese)
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Such pieces were circulated in Indonesia in 1673 and 1681, and were valued at 9 or 10 rijksdaalders.
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From C.C. Vermeule, "Japanese Coins in the British Museum, (part 1)", Numismatic Chronicle 1954, p. 186:
"The cabinet of coins of the Netherlands East Indies contains two specimens of Keicho koban (AD 1601; Jacobs's, p. 67, B104) counterstamped with the rampant lion of Holland (C. Scholten, The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories 1601-1948, Amsterdam, 1953, pp. 34 f., pl. 1, no. 10). The second or illustrated counterstamp is upside down."
- Location
- On display (G68/dc12/p2)
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- C.1435
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: HSBC.1604 (Money Gallery Exhibited)
