On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:17:39 -0400, yunhan82 <yunhan82@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently, I have bought some tin coins which was found in south east
> asia, malaysia, malacca. Those tin coin have some ancient script on it
> which I don't understand its origin. I have uploaded one of the coins in
> the photos. named as coin. Hope that somebody have some idea of what is
> it.

> Thanks,
> YUN HAN

Wish I could help; it's surely not one for people like me to guess at!
Unfortunately, part of the image on both sides is no longer legible,
making identification more difficult. It does remind me of the early
Chinese Small Seal script (WWS, p.198, 3rd column) but that's an amateur's
guess.

Regards,

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Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath