Magic coins of Java, Bali, and the Malay Peninsula
Subtitle: thirteenth to twentieth centuries : a catalog based on the Raffles Collection of coin-shaped charms from Java in the British Museum
By: Joe Cribb.
Contributors: Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826.; British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals.
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826 -- Coin collections -- Catalogs.; British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals -- Catalogs.; Coins, Indonesian -- Private collections -- England -- London -- Catalogs.; Coins, Malaysian -- Private collections -- England -- London -- Catalogs.; Charms -- Private collections -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and indexes.
"This catalog presents the British Museum's unique collection of 165 coin-shaped charms from Indonesia and Malaysia, at the core of which are the 111 examples collected in Java by Sir Stamford Raffles"--P. 4 of cover.