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1 Cash - Dahe Haowei
| Issuer | Bangka Island (Indonesian States) |
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| Composition | Tin |
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| Obverse description | Round cast tin coin with a central square hole, following the traditional East Asian cash coin format. Four Chinese characters are arranged in cruciform around the central perforation, reading top to bottom and right to left: 大 (top), 和 (right), 號 (bottom right area), 為 (left). The characters are rendered in a bold, slightly irregular script typical of locally cast emergency coinage, set within a plain raised inner rim. A wider flat rim borders the outer edge of the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bangka's tin cash coinage was a direct product of the island's position as one of the world's most productive tin sources — a status that drew successive waves of VOC control, Palembang Sultanate authority, and eventually British and Dutch competition before the island was ceded to the Netherlands in 1814 under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty arrangements. The "Dahe Haowei" inscription places this piece within the Chinese kongsi trading community issues, produced to facilitate commerce among the Hakka miners who dominated the tin workings and operated largely outside the formal colonial monetary framework.