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1 Keueh
| Issuer | Sultanate of Aceh (Indonesian States) |
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| Year | 1260-1261 (1844-1845) |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of three parallel curved lines arranged horizontally, with a decorative loop element projecting to the right, all set against a horizontally lined background. Four raised pellets appear above the central device in the upper field, and the AH date is inscribed at the bottom of the field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border of raised pellets following the irregular outline of the flan. |
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The Sultanate of Aceh was one of the last independent Muslim polities in Southeast Asia still issuing its own coinage in the mid-nineteenth century, doing so under mounting pressure from Dutch colonial expansion. This tin keueh belongs to the reign of Sultan Ibrahim Mansur Shah, whose court maintained enough institutional continuity to sustain a local monetary system even as the Dutch were systematically absorbing surrounding territories. Aceh itself would not fall until the brutal war beginning in 1873.