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2 Keping Malayu
| Issuer | Malay Peninsula |
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| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The Arabic numeral ٢ (2) appears at the top of the field, with the large Jawi word دو كڤڠ (Dua Keping, meaning 'Two Keping') prominently inscribed in the central field in bold, deeply struck characters. Four diamond-shaped ornamental stops are arranged in a lozenge pattern in the upper central area. The Hijri date ١٢٤٧ (1247 AH, corresponding to 1832 AD) is inscribed along the lower field. A beaded border runs along the rim. |
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The keping coinage of the Malay Peninsula was minted primarily for trade use in the tin-rich Straits Settlements, where small copper fractions were needed for bazaar transactions that the heavier Spanish and later British silver could not practically serve. This particular 1832 issue falls within the period of increasing British commercial influence following the founding of Singapore in 1819, when demand for low-denomination copper surged across the peninsula's trading ports.
KM#14 is attributed to issues struck under the authority of one of the Malay sultanic states, though provenance among keping varieties of this period remains a persistent challenge — dies were not always carefully controlled, and attribution debates persist in the specialist literature.