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Tin Hat And Animal Money
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Subject :Tin Hat and Animal Money
Published By : Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Location : Kuala Lumpur
Estimated Year : 1970
Media Type : Book
Source : Ian Anderson, Ipoh / Kinta Properties Group
Remark :
This book written in 1970 by William Shaw & Mohd Kassim bin Haji Ali describes the background and history to the modelled tin ingots that appeared in Malaya in the early days of tin mining. It covers all known types of these including tampamgs (pyramid money) shaped ingots and those in a variety of animal shapes.
Examples of these may be seem via the following link.
To see some of the animal money, tampangs and tin ingots in our collection, click here.
Filename : 20120722-013