1/4 Cent - James Brooke Rajah

正面描述	Unadorned left-facing bust of James Brooke, first White Rajah of Sarawak, rendered in fine portrait style with naturalistic detail to the hair and beard. The effigy occupies the majority of the field, with a plain truncation at the base of the neck. The encircling Latin legend reads 'J. BROOKE RAJAH', divided on either side of the portrait, with 'J. BROOKE' to the left and 'RAJAH' to the right. The design is bordered by a continuous inner ring of beading set against a plain field.
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附加信息	James Brooke obtained rule over Sarawak in 1841 as a reward from the Sultan of Brunei for helping suppress a local rebellion — making him one of the last private individuals in history to legally acquire sovereign territory through personal military intervention. He established his own coinage not for economic necessity alone, but to assert the legitimacy of his dynasty against both Dutch pressure from the west and continued Brunei interference from the north. This 1863 issue was among the earliest struck for the territory, produced well into the reign of a man the British government had simultaneously knighted and investigated for the conduct of his anti-piracy campaigns.

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