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English: Medieval small Cash   Mixed inscriptions, probably made 17-18th century, according to Barker. Most bear known reign titles or have been attributed to reigns as early as the 10th Century by Toda and other authors. However, they are too similar to have been issued over a long period. From Vietnam these light coins or "floaters" filtered into southern China along with low-weight counterfeits of Qing cash, and were bought up for export to the Chinese communities on Java and the archipelago, where they are used to this day in wedding ceremonies, as adornment, and reportedly still as small change in remote places. Antique buyers gather them in from the countryside today and export them in bulk to jewelry crafters, where such small pieces are disfavored, though they are now numismatically uncommon in Vietnam and easily retail at $2-5 in the West. Among hundreds of strings of mixed Chinese cash I examined at a jewelry importer, I found just a few that are completely made up of these Medieval private Vietnamese cash. I have not checked these strings, but have worked through similar lots acquired years ago, and found that there usually is not a great deal of variety; sometimes half the string will be a single reign title! Condition on these is never sharp as athe coins are thin and the fields are shallow. Most will be readable without cleaning but this can help.    XB185) Per string of 200 coins: $150, or $50 for 50 coins.