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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 3940652, member: 102653&quot;]These coins are really cool! Like you said, there is hardly anything known about them except that to date they have only been discovered in the area around Palembang or the Musi River so it&#039;s likely that they were a local issue rather than a widespread coinage. The &quot;kupang&quot; refers to the weight unit; one kupang is 1/4 of a massa (like my silver piece above). So 1 massa = 2.40g, 1 kupang = 0.60g. Given that the weight is standardized to 1/4 of the massa, it&#039;s reasonable to say it was circa 900-1200 AD. I think the earliest gold pieces found on Sumatra are early 11th C. while the native coinage died out at the start of the 14th C. by the influx of Chinese copper cash imported by the Javanese Majapahit. I&#039;d be confident dating it circa 1000-1300 AD. During this time the Srivijaya Empire controlled Palembang but it&#039;s important to note the SE kingdoms were not like the western idea of kingdoms and there wasn&#039;t much coordination, especially with coinages. Other parts of the Srivijaya Empire developed local coinage too but nothing was ever widespread and standardized throughout the empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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