1 Keueh

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.