Tiger Tongue and Nan Tok: Curious Currency of Southeast Asia

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Tiger Tongue Currency: silver ingot 'lats' (2, weighing 106gr and 124gr respectively), plus two smaller copper alloy examples, used mid-1300s until late 19th century in the Mekong Valley from Southern Yunnan to the Cambodian border; plus a Burma/Northern Thailand silver 'Nan Tok' (weight 60gr) with characteristic golden colouring to one side, caused by impurities; early-mid 1800s; also literature 'Curious Currency' by Robert Leonard, and 'An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money' by Charles Op

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silver, country of manufacture
- Cambodian 30
- Siamese, Thai 182