1 Duit Ugi

Features

Issuer	British Singapore (British East Indies)
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1250 (1835)
Calendar	Islamic (Hijri)
Value	1 Duit (1⁄400)
Currency	Keping
Composition	Copper
Weight	2 g
Diameter	20.9 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 315750
References	Singh# SS 64 Saran Singh; 1986. The encyclopaedia of the coins of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, 1400-1986. Malaysia Numismatic Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. , KM# Tn1 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Obverse

Lontara' inscription in two lines with date in western Arabic numeral at bottom. Beads around border.

Script: Lontara

Lettering:
ᨈᨊ
ᨓᨘᨁᨗ
1250

Unabridged legend:
Tana
Ugi
1250

Translation:
Land of Bugis
AH 1250 (=AD 1834)

Reverse

Lontara' inscription in two lines. Beads around border.

Script: Lontara

Lettering:
ᨔᨙᨕᨘᨓ
ᨉᨘᨓᨗ

Unabridged legend: Séuwa duwi(t)

Translation: One duit

Edge

Plain

Comments

It is unclear who first issued this coin. It has similar date and "tana ugi" legend as Christopher Ridout Read's cock token from A.L. Johnston & Company, Singapore, but Singh (1986: 446-447) did not mention whether this coin was part of Read's issue.

Obverse legend has an error ᨓᨘᨁᨗ wugi which should have been ᨕᨘᨁᨗ ugi "Bugis". While the reverse legend in this coin uses the term "duit", catalogues may list this piece as "keping". Lack of final -t in "duit" is customary in Lontara' orthography, not an error.

See:
Saran Singh (1986) The encyclopaedia of the coins of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, 1400-1986. pp: 446-447, 474

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1250 (1835)

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