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1 Keping Cockerel facing right
| Issuer | Malay Peninsula |
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| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a cockerel in full profile facing right, rendered with fine feather detailing on the body, wings, and elaborate tail plumage, standing on a flat ground line. A beaded border encircles the entire field. The Arabic legend تانه ملايو ('Land of Malay') arcs above the cockerel along the upper periphery. The design is boldly struck in low relief against a plain field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The kepings of the Malay Peninsula were never the product of a single centralized authority — they circulated through a patchwork of sultanates, trading posts, and colonial entrepôts where small copper coinage was chronically undersupplied. Many were struck privately or semi-officially, with attribution still contested among specialists. The SS 29 / KM#8.1 classification places this piece within the Straits Settlements issues, though the precise mint origin remains unresolved in the literature.
The 1832 date falls squarely within the period when Penang, Malacca, and Singapore were being consolidated under British administration following the 1826 formation of the Straits Settlements.