Indo-Malay coin – HCR139785

Obverse

Inscription:

Uncertain

Design:

Motif repeated 6 times around raised pentagonal rim of pentagonal centre hole; raised outer rim

Reverse

Inscription:

plain

Design:

raised pentagonal inner rim and raised outer rim

Information

Period

Indo-Malay

Material

copper alloy

Technique

cast

Dating

?1600 – 1620

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

3.74

Diameter (mm)

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition date

12/4/2023

Source

David Hartill

Acquisition credit

Presented by David Hartill, 2023.

Transliteration (obverse)

uncertain, see Mitchiner (2012)

Reference

Mitchiner (2012) : Page 33, #33-34

Note:

Mitchiner (2012) considered that the markings repeated six times on coins of this type could be read in two ways. When the two parts are fully conjoined he read this composite as "Sri" in "Sumatran Kannada script" but in specimens where the two parts are separate he read them as "40" in "Javanese script" (Kawi). In any event he considered the second type to be a degenerate later version of the first one.

Contributors to this coin record

autouploader, mritchie, cgallacher