Lot 532

Borneo, lead-tin local cash coin (9.92 g.). Lin Tian Gong Si / rev: Zheng Li. The Lintian or Lim-Thian company (Misty fields company), known post-1850 as Xinle Republic, was an autonomous Chinese gongsi federation located in the Budok district of West Kalimantan, Borneo. It joined the Heshun Confederation in 1850 and was dissolved in 1854 at the hands of the Dutch. Ref.: Yih and de Kreek: The Gongsi cash pieces of Western Borneo and Banka in the Ethnographical Museum at Rotterdam", Numismatic Chronicle 153, 171-96 (1996) (https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2867); ZENO 310532