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1 Keping Cockerel facing right, Ugi
| Issuer | Bugis Sultanate |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Thickness | 0.75 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a large multi-petalled rosette or stylised star flower with approximately twelve pointed petals radiating symmetrically from a raised central boss, occupying most of the flan. A circular Lontara-script legend surrounds the central device, running along the inner margin of the beaded border. The Hijri date 1250 is inscribed in Western Arabic numerals at the base of the design beneath the floral motif. The beaded border frames the entire composition in a manner typical of Bugis token coinage of the early nineteenth century. |
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| Reverse lettering | ᨓᨊᨘᨓᨈᨊᨕᨘᨁᨗ ᨔᨙᨉᨗᨀᨙᨄᨙ 1250 (Translation: Land of Bugis, one keping AH 1250 (=AD 1834)) |
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The Bugis kepings circulating in the Riau-Lingga archipelago during the 1830s occupied a monetary vacuum left by inconsistent Dutch colonial supply. Private tin and copper pieces — technically tokens rather than regal issues — filled everyday petty transactions that neither the VOC's successors nor the local sultanate could adequately service in small denominations. Singh catalogues several cockerel variants from this period, and the die distinctions between them remain a point of active collector debate.