Lot 892

Borneo, lead-tin local cash coin (5.74 g.). Yih & de Kreek (NC 1993 p.183); ZENO 271601. Obv: Lin Tian Gong Si // rev: manchu inscription. The Lintian Republic (Chinese: Hakka / Dutch: Lim-Thian; "Misty fields company"), known post-1850 as Xinle Republic (Chinese, Hakka/Dutch: Xim-Lok; "New happiness company") was an autonomous Chinese gongsi federation located in the Budok (Chinese Hakka: Boedok) district of West Kalimantan, Borneo. It joined the He Shun Confederation in 1850 and was dissolved in 1854 at the hands of the Dutch. gF-VF Very Rare RR