Javanese inscription: Pangeran Ratuing Banten ("King of Banten"). Mint of Benten (Bantam). 24mm, 2.42 grams. Millies #113; cf. Zeno 12420; cf. Numista 12420.

High quality rare large coin, pretty much "as cast". This type was cast in bronze and in tin. This is the tin version, it is actually much more rare than the bronze version.

The Banten (or Bantam) Sultanate was founded in the 16th century and centered in Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English spelling of both was Bantam. It is said to have been founded by Sunan Gunungjati, who previously found Cirebon. Once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, especially of pepper, its importance was overshadowed by Batavia, and finally annexed to Dutch East Indies in 1813. Its core territory now forms the Indonesian province of Banten.

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