1 Keping Deli

Deli was a Malay sultanate on Sumatra's northeast coast whose coinage was produced under the influence of the Dutch colonial administration, which permitted local tin and copper issues as subsidiary currency where Dutch East Indies coinage failed to penetrate. The keping denomination was common across the Malay world in this period, though Deli issues are among the scarcer sultanate coppers — the territory was still a minor polity in 1836, decades before the tobacco boom of the 1860s and 1870s transformed it into one of the most economically significant residencies in the entire Dutch colonial system.