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| Emittent | Sultanate of Sumenep |
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| Jahr | 1729-1732 |
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| Referenz(en) | KM#197 |
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| Reversbeschreibung | The reverse displays the characteristic Spanish colonial cob-type cross design, featuring a bold floriated cross with castle and lion emblems alternating in the four quadrants, all contained within a beaded tressure border. The cross is boldly struck though partially off-flan at the edges, as is typical of macuquina (cob) coinage of this period. The irregular planchet, produced by cutting a slug from a silver bar, results in the characteristic amorphous outline of the flan. A small plug or hole is visible at the lower right, consistent with the countermark host piece. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Sultanate of Sumenep, on the northeastern tip of Madura island, applied its countermark to Spanish colonial 8 reales as a means of validating foreign specie for local circulation — a practice common among smaller Southeast Asian polities that lacked their own minting infrastructure. The host coins bearing this mark are Mexican-minted cob-style pieces from Felipe V's reign, themselves already decades into circulation by the time they reached the Java Sea trade routes.
KM#197 is among the more obscure of the Indonesian archipelago countermark types. Genuine examples are rarely encountered outside specialist collections of Dutch East Indies-related material.