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1 Gulden Madura star countermark
| Issuer | Sumenep, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1802 |
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| Composition | Silver (.916) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland, crowned with an ornate heraldic crown surmounting the escutcheon. The denomination numerals '1' and 'G' flank the shield to left and right respectively. A rope border encloses the central device, with a circular legend reading '1 G MO : ARG : ORD : FŒD : BELG : HOL :' distributed around the periphery within a beaded border. The design follows the standard Dutch Republic provincial coinage style of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. |
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| Reverse lettering | INDIÆ BATAVORUM 1802 (Translation: Indies of the Batavians) |
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Sumenep, on the eastern tip of Madura island, was among the Javanese coastal sultanates that maintained a degree of nominal autonomy under the VOC and later the Batavian Republic through carefully managed tributary arrangements. By 1802 the Dutch administration was in genuine disarray — the VOC had formally dissolved on the last day of 1799, and the transitional Batavian Republic struggled to assert fiscal control across the archipelago. Local rulers filled the vacuum in part by countermarking Dutch colonial silver already in circulation, a practice that both legitimized existing coin stocks and stamped them with unmistakable local authority.
The host coin here is a Dutch 1 Gulden. The Sumenep star punch is documented across several host types, making the specific die pairing worth noting against Scholt's reference sequence.