1 Cash - Dahe Haowei

Bangka's tin cash coinage was a direct product of the island's position as one of the world's most productive tin sources — a status that drew successive waves of VOC control, Palembang Sultanate authority, and eventually British and Dutch competition before the island was ceded to the Netherlands in 1814 under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty arrangements. The "Dahe Haowei" inscription places this piece within the Chinese kongsi trading community issues, produced to facilitate commerce among the Hakka miners who dominated the tin workings and operated largely outside the formal colonial monetary framework.