299, Lot: 572. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

WORLD. Indonesia. Lot of three (3) Tin Cash. All coins: Uncertain ruler. Circa 15th century AD. Palembang(?) mint. Shi Dan Li Bao or Zhong Dan Li Bao in Hànzì / Blank. Zeno 5443, otherwise unpublished. VF. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Three (3) coins in lot.

Hang Li Po first appears in the Malay Annals as a Chinese princess sent to be the fifth bride of sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca. However, there is no reference to this event in official Ming documents. Li Po may merely be a beautiful concubine given to the Sultan. Alternatively, she may be the daughter of an otherwise unknown Chinese ruler in the area, to whom this coin may perhaps be attributed.