2 Keping - Lotus-Malay inscription Trumon/Thailand Pattern
Features
| Issuer |
British Singapore
(British East Indies)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Patterns |
| Year | 1197 (1836) |
| Calendar | Thailand - Rama era |
| Value | 2 Keping |
| Currency | Keping |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 5.0 g |
| Diameter | 22 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 174242 |
Obverse
Lotus
Script: Thai
Lettering: ๑๑๙๗
Translation: CS1197
Reverse
Inscription in Malay language
Script: Arabic
Lettering:
نڭري
ترومن
Unabridged legend:
Nagari
Trumon
Translation: Land of Trumon
Comments
This coin is a mule, with the observe inscription using Thai numeral, but with reverse inscription in Arabic Malay script referring to Trumon, a region located near Aceh, Sumatra.
These coins were not official currency of any state. They were first issued in the early 1800s by British merchants at Singapore, to alleviate base coin shortage, before spreading to various parts of the Malay Archipelago. To circumvent confiscation attempts by colonial authorities (particularly the Dutch), British merchants use inscriptions that refer to locations that are vague, fictitious, or unaffiliated to Europeans. In this manner, legally it could not be argued that the tokens were intended for circulation in colonial territories.
See Singh, The encyclopaedia of the coins of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, 1400-1986 (1986:445-449) for details.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| 1197 (1836) | Only 1 known | ||||||||||||||
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