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I bought this item described as a "Ting Hai" bogus treaty port local. It could well be, but I have
not found any reference to it in Hurt-Williams, Lane-McGuire, or elsewhere. Can anyone read the
Chinese inscriptions? Any more information?
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The left tablet indicates "one cent silver" (mirror image); the right, something about assay value
(mirrored and inverted). This seems to point to a fantasy by someone who doesn't write Chinese.
[Ray Chen]
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This could be an old "money order" or "scrip" from a private company. [Bill Claghorn]
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This is a rubbing of both sides of a Japanese ichibu-gin coin, circa
1836-1869 (varieties exist). I have not the faintest idea why this would
have been done, or how it came to be postmarked. I did stuff like this
when I was a kid to create fantasy stamps, though. [Ken Bryson]
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