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1 Masa
| Issuer | Pre-Islamic kingdoms |
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| Year | 800-1300 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Nagari |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
The masa was a unit of weight before it was ever a coin — rooted in the Sanskrit māṣa, a seed-weight measure used across South and Southeast Asian trade networks for centuries before any mint formalized it in silver. Whether the pieces attributed to this broad classification were struck by a single authority or represent accumulated issues from competing port polities along the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra remains genuinely contested among specialists.
The HCM reference range covers a span of five centuries, which alone signals how much remains unresolved about attribution and sequencing.