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4 Reales - Felipe IV Sumenep countermark

Issuer Sultanate of Sumenep
Year 1730-1732
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Value 4 Reales
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Obverse description The Sumenep countermark, applied by the Sultanate of Sumenep (Madura, present-day Indonesia), occupies the principal field of this face. The countermark consists of Arabic script characters deeply impressed into the silver cob flan, partially obscuring the underlying hammered Spanish colonial design. The irregular, roughly polygonal flan is characteristic of the macuquina (cob) coinage production method, with the countermark stamp applied with considerable force, creating a well-defined impression within the host coin's surface.
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Obverse lettering PHILIPVS V DEI G
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Reverse script Latin
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