1 Cash - Xiangfu Yuanbao, Zinc imitation

These zinc imitations of the Northern Song Xiangfu Yuanbao cash circulated across the Malay peninsula and Indonesian archipelago as trade tokens, filling a chronic small-denomination void that neither Dutch colonial authorities nor local Malay states adequately addressed. The originals were cast in China during the Xiangfu reign period (1008–1016), but the imitations — struck or cast locally over subsequent centuries — bear no allegiance to that date.

Zinc distinguishes them immediately from Chinese prototypes, which were cast in bronze.