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¼ Keueh - Aceh Fractional

Issuer Sultanate of Aceh (Indonesian States)
Year 1844-1845
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Value ¼ Keueh
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Obverse script Arabic
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The Sultanate of Aceh maintained one of the longest-running independent minting traditions in Southeast Asia, resisting Dutch encroachment long after neighboring Malay states had fallen under colonial monetary systems. These small tin-lead fractions circulated alongside imported Chinese cash coins in local bazaar trade, a pragmatic overlap that the sultanate never entirely resolved. Dutch forces didn't occupy Kutaraja until 1874, making mid-19th century Acehnese coinage genuinely sovereign in a way few regional issues of the period were.

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