Showing posts with label animal currency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal currency. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
THE ANIMAL CURRENCY / ANIMAL MONEY PHOTO COLLECTION OF NASRON JAMIL
My postings on the photo collection is now complete. Kindly refer to my Animal Currency blog to view.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
AROUND THE NET - CALVIN-MYJOURNEY.BLOGSPOT.COM
The beauty of the internet and information age is abundance of information. As usual, surfing the cyberworld for more information on animal currency I came across this blog. The blog writer made a trip to the Royal Selangor Pewter in September 2008. Included in the photos of his trip are a few items of tin animal money. The tortoise looks similar like the one in the collection of Bank Negara Malaysia leading me to believe that all the items in the photograph belongs to them. There is also a possibility that the items belongs to Royal Selangor Pewter. I should make a visit to find out for sure that is, assuming the items are still on display there. The photograph of the items can be viewed here. The blog writer has nice caption for the photo, I wonder how many animals like this millionaires in the past had in their bank.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
DISCOVERY - HOARD OF MALAY STATES COINS FOUND AT TANJUNG PINANG, RIAU ISLAND, INDONESIA (PART 2)
Here are the images presented by Kassim in his article. The condition of the images are not so good due to poor source condition. These items do not come with details such as size and weight.
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Image 1 - 3 - Main trunks from the Terengganu coin tree.
A coin tree cast in the shape of a sun ray using the "lost wax" method.
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Four items of Ring Currency described as - Kedah one cent 'cockerel' animal currency.
An elephant described as - Perak/Selangor 'elephant' animal currency.
It looks like there is a stringing hole at the back of the elephant, such a feature on elephants is extremely rare. Except for the above item, I do not know of any other elephant with a stringing hole.
Chinese cash tin coin with branch.
A strange looking item described as - Currency in the form of a goat.
(Poor image due to poor source condition)
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Image 3Image 1 - 3 - Main trunks from the Terengganu coin tree.
A coin tree cast in the shape of a sun ray using the "lost wax" method.
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Image 2
Image 3Image 1 - 3, described as - Perak/Selangor "cockerel" animal Currency.
A 17th. century Kedah cockerel coin with two rings.
A 17th. century Kedah cockerel coin with two rings.
Four items of Ring Currency described as - Kedah one cent 'cockerel' animal currency.Note that the items were described as "animal currency" despite the fact that they do not have any any animal feature in their designs.
An elephant described as - Perak/Selangor 'elephant' animal currency.It looks like there is a stringing hole at the back of the elephant, such a feature on elephants is extremely rare. Except for the above item, I do not know of any other elephant with a stringing hole.
Chinese cash tin coin with branch.
A strange looking item described as - Currency in the form of a goat.(Poor image due to poor source condition)
Sunday, June 6, 2010
TIN 'HAT' AND ANIMAL: MONEY BY WILLIAM SHAW AND MOHD. KASSIM ALI
The Tin 'Hat' and Animal Money, a book by Shaw and Kassim published in 1970 by Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is a useful reference for the subject. This 17-page book, excluding nine exhibition plates, focuses more on Tin 'Hat" Money (Pagodas and Pyramids) but provides brief and good background information on the development of Animal Money (Animal Currency).
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