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| 正面描述 | 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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| 背面文字 | Latin |
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The Sultanate of Sumenep, on the island of Madura off northeast Java, applied countermarks to foreign silver coinage as a means of validating currency for local circulation — a pragmatic solution in an archipelago where Dutch, Spanish, and indigenous monetary systems overlapped uneasily. The host coin here is a Spanish colonial 4 Reales, itself minted decades earlier in the Americas. By the 1730s, such pieces were circulating so far removed from their origin that the Spanish crown would not have recognized their commercial context.
KM#196.2 distinguishes this countermark type from related Sumenep applications on other denominations. The sultanate's authority to authenticate coinage operated largely outside VOC oversight during this period.