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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 6886790, member: 102653&quot;]12 hours. This coin is unusual for cash coins because it has a hexagon center hole rather than the usual four-sided squares. This piece was minted by an Islamic kingdom, the Banten Sultanate, in Java (present-day Indonesia). By that point in time, Java had been using imported Chinese cash nearly exclusively for close to three hundred years after the Javanese kingdoms had abandoned the indigenous gold and silver coins they minted in earlier times.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1272776[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">Banten Sultanate</p> <p style="text-align: center">c. 1546-1596 AD</p> <p style="text-align: center">AE Cash | 2.28g | 24mm wide</p> <p style="text-align: center">Obv: <i>Pangeran Ratu</i></p> <p style="text-align: center">Rev: <i>Ja</i> (suggested to be a mintmark for Banten&#039;s second port-city, Jayakarta)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Next: Another &quot;deviant&quot; variety of a more common coin type[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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