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Lot # 949
Myanmar (Burma). AE Weight-money in the shape of a dragon, c. XVII-XIX century AD.
Dimensions: 29x16 mm.
AE. 32.27 g. Intact, minor wears. Weights of this type were used in Siam, Burma, and parts of Laos between 1600 and 1860 both to weigh opium and for other forms of trade and, of course, also as currency. (Opitz, 1986, p.120).