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1 Keping Cockerel facing right
| Issuer | Malay Peninsula |
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| Year | 1805-1836 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | A spurred cockerel depicted in profile facing right, rendered in low relief within a beaded border. An Arabic inscription appears in the upper field above the cockerel, reading 'Tanah Melayu' (Land of Malay). The design is characteristic of the informal keping coinage tradition of the Malay Peninsula, with a rustic stylistic quality typical of locally produced emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | ۱ سات کڤڠ ۱۲۴۷ (Translation: One keping AH 1247) |
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The Keping series circulating across the Malay Peninsula during this period was produced not by any single sovereign authority but largely by private merchants and trading companies operating out of Penang — formally Prince of Wales Island after 1786 — who needed small-denomination copper to lubricate bazaar trade where Spanish and Dutch silver was too valuable for daily transactions. The specific cockerel type attributed to Singh SS 27 / KM 8.2 is one of several competing local issues, and attribution between varieties remains contested among specialists due to inconsistent die workmanship and the absence of mint records.