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1 Keping Percha
| Issuer | Sumatra |
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| Year | 1836 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1783-1824) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a two-word Arabic inscription reading 'Percha Island' (ڤولو ڤرچ), rendered in bold Jawi script and flanked by small diamond-shaped ornaments. A rayed star with a central annulet appears above and below the inscription, each serving as a decorative device within the field. The entire design is enclosed by a uniform border of raised beads running along the inner rim. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The kepings of Sumatra's pepper-producing interior were never official state coinage in any modern sense — they circulated as trade tokens within the Dutch colonial economy, filling a chronic small-change vacuum that the VOC's successors consistently failed to address. This particular issue dates to a period when the Dutch were still consolidating control over the Sumatran interior following the Java War, resources stretched thin across the archipelago.
The Pr#39 reference places it within Pridmore's catalog of British and Dutch colonial issues, a classification that itself reflects how ambiguous the issuing authority actually was.