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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 8281689, member: 102653&quot;]This one matches for the [Maritime] Silk Road but is also scyphate. This was minted by one of the successive kingdoms of East Java following the Mataram Kingdom&#039;s shift east from the Kedu Plain to the Brantas River Delta around 929 AD due to disastrous volcanic eruptions. These were issued anonymously by the Mataram, Kediri, Jenggala, Singhasari, and later Majapahit Kingdoms. They are most commonly simply attributed to the Majapahit but this is mostly incorrect as it seems the Majapahit phased out the native silver/gold coins within a decade or two of coming to power, ending the roughly half millennium that one could find a small silver coin stamped with the sandalwood flower and Nagari <i>Ma</i> character in Javanese markets.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1462740[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">Buddhist/Hindu Kingdoms of East Java</p> <p style="text-align: center">Present-day Indonesia</p> <p style="text-align: center">c. 930-1300 AD</p> <p style="text-align: center">AR Kupang | 0.45 grams</p> <p style="text-align: center">Obv: Sandalwood flower motif, double struck in error</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rev: Nagari script <i>Ma </i>in later Javanese style</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Next: Another coin whose issuing kingdom is unknown (or at least controversial)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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