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1 Keping Sultana
| Issuer | Sumatra |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse lettering | ISLAND OF SULTANA 1835 |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The keping coinage of Sumatra occupies an unusual corner of numismatic history — these pieces were struck not by a sovereign mint but effectively by commercial interests operating under sultanate sanction, filling a chronic small-change void that Dutch colonial authorities had repeatedly failed to address. By the 1830s, the East Indies trade in tin and pepper created constant demand for low-denomination transactional currency that neither Batavia nor the local sultanates could reliably supply in quantity. The kepings that emerged were quasi-official at best.
Singh's classification of this piece as SS 13 reflects how fragmented the attribution record remains for Sumatran copper issues of this period.