1 Cash - Binglang Gongsi Bangka ND

Reverse

Arabic inscription surrounding square hole. Base to center, read counter-clockwise. Small countermark on the rim.

Script: Arabic

Lettering: هذا فلوس فڠکلفينڠ

Unabridged legend: hadha fulus pangkal pinang

Translation: This is a fulus piece of Pangkal Pinang.

Edge

Plain

Comment

Since the discovery of its tin deposit in 1710, Bangka provided the raw materials for much of Palembang's base coinage until the island was lost to the British in 1812. The Palembang Sultanate mandated directed the predominantly Chinese mining communities in Bangka to mint their own Chinese-styled tokens as opposed to "regular" Malay-styled coins issued by the Sultanate. However, according to Mitchiner & Yih (2013:32), there is little doubt that some of the Bangka tokens circulated within Palembang as the island was administered directly from the city.

See:

• Millies, Henricus Christiaan (1871). Recherches sur les Monnaies des Indigènes de l'Archipel Indien et de la Pèninsule Malaie.
  
• Mitchiner, Michael and Tjong Ding Yih (2013). "Coin Circulation in Palembang (Sumatra), circa AD 1710 to 1825. Sultanate coins minted at Palembang."
  
• Mitchiner, Michael and Tjong Ding Yih (2014). "Coin Circulation in Palembang (Sumatra), circa AD 1710 to 1825. Coins minted for the mining communities on Bangka Island."
  

Interesting fact