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1 Cent - James Brooke Rajah
| Issuer | Sarawak |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of James Brooke, first White Rajah of Sarawak, facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed wavy hair and sideburns. The truncation of the neck is cleanly cut. The divided legend J. BROOKE to the left and RAJAH to the right curves along the inner border. The coin is encircled by a toothed border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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James Brooke obtained his rule over Sarawak in 1841 as reward from the Sultan of Brunei for suppressing a local rebellion — making him the founder of one of history's few private dynasties to govern a non-Western territory under personal sovereignty rather than crown or company charter. The Brooke raj issued its own coinage largely as a practical necessity: Sarawak's remoteness from British Malaya and the chaotic mix of Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese currency already in circulation made a local copper issue the most workable solution for small transactions.
The 1863 date places this piece in the early years of Brooke coinage, with KM#3 representing only the third distinct type struck for the territory.