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1 Keping - Syarif Kasim Alkadrie
| Issuer | Sultanate of Pontianak |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | بلنج فنتييانق دان ممفاوہ ١٢٢٦ (Translation: Currency of Pontianak and Mempawa year AH 1226) |
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The Sultanate of Pontianak was established in 1771 by Arab-Malay founder Syarif Abdurrahman Alkadrie, and by 1811 his son Syarif Kasim had assumed rule during one of the most turbulent periods in the region's colonial history — the year the British under Raffles temporarily seized Dutch Java and its dependencies. Whether that disruption influenced local minting decisions at Pontianak is unclear, but coinage issued under Syarif Kasim is scarce and seldom appears outside Indonesian and Dutch collections.
The keping denomination was common across tin- and copper-using sultanates of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, but Pontianak's issues are among the least documented of the series.