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‖ obang|ˈəʊbæŋ|
Also 7 oeban.
[Jap. ô-ban, f. ô great + ban (a. Chinese fan) sheet, division: cf. kobang.]
A gold coin formerly current in Japan, of an oblong form rounded at the corners, and equal in value to ten kobangs.
1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. ii. (1669) 147 A thousand Oebans of Gold, which amount to forty seven thousand Thayls, or crowns. 1863Reader 21 Nov. 595 The half-obang is almost literally an obang, which is elliptic in form, cut in half. 1890Daily News 11 Oct. 5/4 The next in size to this unwieldy coin is the Japanese ‘obang’, which weighs rather more than two ounces and a half, about equal to ten English sovereigns. |