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<p>[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 3533640, member: 102653"]Just to show some examples of Indonesian local cash coins, here are three types from my collection. Note that these are all from Palembang, Sumatra. The coin above in question likely came from Java.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938966[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938965[/ATTACH]</p><p>The above coin reads "Shi Dan Li Bao" which translates to Sultan Li Poh. The sultan ruled Palembang around 1450-1470 and was of Chinese heritage. Sultan Li Poh is the father of the legendary Hang Li Poh, a princess who married Mansur Shah, of the Malacca Sultanate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938970[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938971[/ATTACH] </p><p>The above coin reads ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ." which adds up to 16 dots total. Jokes aside, not much is known about the origin of this unique and interesting coin and it seems to be relatively rare. It is not listed it in Frank S. Robinson's "Palembang Coins" but I did find a category of it on <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=14979" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=14979" rel="nofollow">Zeno.ru</a>. Zeno commenters call it an imitation of ketengs of Surakarta and Jogjakarta, rather than a direct imitation of Chinese letters.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938977[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]938976[/ATTACH]</p><p>The above coin reads "Alamat Sultan" in Arabic. The coin is undated but surely came from the Palembang Sultanate, 1659-1821. I've chatter that places the coin from 1659-1800. Something interesting, out of the ten varieties Robinson lists, none have the three ornamental dots arranged in the triangle that can be found at the bottom. Looking online they are not very uncommon with some showing it. Strange that he could have missed such a relatively common variety like that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 3533640, member: 102653"]Just to show some examples of Indonesian local cash coins, here are three types from my collection. Note that these are all from Palembang, Sumatra. The coin above in question likely came from Java. [ATTACH=full]938966[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938965[/ATTACH] The above coin reads "Shi Dan Li Bao" which translates to Sultan Li Poh. The sultan ruled Palembang around 1450-1470 and was of Chinese heritage. Sultan Li Poh is the father of the legendary Hang Li Poh, a princess who married Mansur Shah, of the Malacca Sultanate. [ATTACH=full]938970[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938971[/ATTACH] The above coin reads ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ." which adds up to 16 dots total. Jokes aside, not much is known about the origin of this unique and interesting coin and it seems to be relatively rare. It is not listed it in Frank S. Robinson's "Palembang Coins" but I did find a category of it on [URL='https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=14979']Zeno.ru[/URL]. Zeno commenters call it an imitation of ketengs of Surakarta and Jogjakarta, rather than a direct imitation of Chinese letters. [ATTACH=full]938977[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938976[/ATTACH] The above coin reads "Alamat Sultan" in Arabic. The coin is undated but surely came from the Palembang Sultanate, 1659-1821. I've chatter that places the coin from 1659-1800. Something interesting, out of the ten varieties Robinson lists, none have the three ornamental dots arranged in the triangle that can be found at the bottom. Looking online they are not very uncommon with some showing it. Strange that he could have missed such a relatively common variety like that.[/QUOTE]
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