- Year: ca. 1900
- Condition: very nice dark patina, 160 g, 10 Tical
- Opiumgewicht, Opium weight, Poids opium, Hintha from Burma, 10 Tical ( ORIGINAL ) !
- Hintha ( H4A )
- Base: hexagonal
- Verification mark: 6-rayed star
- Age: ca. 19th century
- ORIGINAL !
- The publication about the "Opium Weights":
Hartmut Mollat "A Model Chronology of the Animal Weights of Burma (Myanmar)"
Anthropos 104 / 2009, 533-542, 2009
Donald and Joan Gear "EARTH TO HEAVEN, The Royal Animal-Shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires"
Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 1992 / 2000
Rolf und Ilse Braun "Opiumgewichte / Opium weights / Poids d'Asie"
Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau, 1983
Michael Herrfurth & Hartmut Mollat "Art of Asia, Beauty and the Beast" Animal-shaped Weight of Burma"
Art of Asia publications LTD, Hong Kong, Mai - June 2013
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