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1 Keping Cockerel facing right
| Issuer | Malay Peninsula |
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| Year | 1832 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a cockerel in full profile facing right, rendered with fine feather detailing on the body, wings, and elaborate tail plumage, standing on a flat ground line. A beaded border encircles the entire field. The Arabic legend تانه ملايو ('Land of Malay') arcs above the cockerel along the upper periphery. The design is boldly struck in low relief against a plain field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a prominent Arabic inscription occupying the central field, reading سات کڤڠ ('One Keping') in large Jawi script characters arranged across the upper and middle portions of the flan. The Hijri date ١٢٤٧ (AH 1247, corresponding to AD 1832) is inscribed in Arabic numerals along the lower portion of the field. A beaded border runs continuously around the rim, framing the composition. |
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The kepings of the Malay Peninsula were never the product of a single centralized authority — they circulated through a patchwork of sultanates, trading posts, and colonial entrepôts where small copper coinage was chronically undersupplied. Many were struck privately or semi-officially, with attribution still contested among specialists. The SS 29 / KM#8.1 classification places this piece within the Straits Settlements issues, though the precise mint origin remains unresolved in the literature.
The 1832 date falls squarely within the period when Penang, Malacca, and Singapore were being consolidated under British administration following the 1826 formation of the Straits Settlements.