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| Issuer | Sultanate of Batubara (Indonesian States) |
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| Year | 1740-1750 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Batubara was a small Malay sultanate on Sumatra's northeast coast, operating in the shadow of larger powers — Aceh to the north, the Dutch VOC tightening its regional grip throughout the 1740s. Tin coinage of this type was cast rather than struck, a method typical of the Malay world that produced irregular flans and variable surface quality as a matter of course, not defect.
KM#3 is one of very few attributed issues for Batubara, and surviving examples rarely appear in Western auction records.