KEPING: COIN OF MALACCA
1 keping, 1832: Malacca (British East Indies, Malay Peninsula)
Not entirely a coin — a token (according to some numismatic sources).
Date on coin: AH 1247 (AH: Latin "Anno Hegirae" — "the year of the Hijra"; Islamic calendar) = 1832 (Gregorian calendar).
Legend in Arabic.
سات كڤڠ - ١ (1 keping), ١۲۴۷ (1247).
أرض الملايو: land of the Malays.
Rooster.
- Copper: 21.5 mm - 1.97 g
- Reference price: 18.3$
COIN KEPING — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- BRITISH EAST INDIE + NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: ACEH, KELANTAN, MALACCA, MINANGKABAU, PERAK, PONTIANAK, SIAK, SUMATRA, TRUMON… (18th-20th centuries): keping = 10 pitis
The name of the coin keping comes from the term Malay, which is used to count small round objects (online translation from the Malay language shows the following result: "keping" = "pieces"). There is also information that the term from the Indonesian language (the Indonesian language was finally formed only in the first half of the 20th century on the basis of the Malay language) is translated as a piece, a fragment, a meager number.
