CURRENCY NOTES, COINS AND TOKENS FROM MALAYA. 133 
copper coinage of the Straits Settlements are current as 
well as the local pewter coinage) a new issue of coinage 
became urgently necessary. There was no time to order a 
new “ die” from Europe and the old die (modified slight- 
ly on the Obverse) was used. 
(6) The modification consists in the addition (cut into the old 
die) of the diamond shaped figure surrounding and the 
two stars flanking the figure “1.” The old Hegira date 
1325 (i.e. 1906-7) is retained though the coins were issued 
only in 1920: so too are the initials of the Sultan who died 
gol Ju) aUtehs 
{c) The main reason why any modification was really neces- 
sary Was because owing ‘to the high price of tin these 
“white” or pewter cents were issued as equal to Straits 
Settlements copper or “ red” cents whereas 400 of the old 
Trengganu cents only equalled in value 300 Straits copper 
cents. 
(d) The alloy was prepared by the great Tin Smelting Com- 
pany of Singapore, the Straits Trading Coy., litd. and is 
noticeably harder than the mixture used for earlier issues, 
The “ die ” itself is rather worn and the sheath or instru- 
ment used for cutting the blanks from the sheet metal is 
getting blunt and could not be properly repaired by the 
local Trengganu metal-workers: with the result that the 
edeing of the coin is very poor and the general impression 
not very clear: though specimens vary. 
(e) Ten thousand dollars worth of these coins were to be issued, 
The issue was authorized by the High Commissioner. 
NETHERLANDS INDIES. 
Mr. Moquette of Weltevreden, Java, informed me in 1920 that 
in 1914, in consequence of shortage in copper currency, an issue of 
Tin coins representing values of 5 and 10 cents was contemplated. 
Dies were prepared at the Opium Factory at Batavia but, as the 
scarcity of coinage was within a short time made good by a supply 
from Holland, the projected issue of coins was never made. 
The die for the 10 cent piece was destroyed and the specimens 
struck from it were, with the exception of one example produced 
after the die had already been damaged and now in the Batavia 
Museum, melted down. The die for the 5 cent piece was however 
preserved and is in the same Museum together with a few specimens 
struck from it. The following is a short description of these ex- 
tremely rare proofs :— 
1. Ten cents: struck at Batavia, Java: made of tin with a 
little lead: circular: size 27 mm. Plain edge. Description from 
a plaster cast. [Pl. V. figs. 24 and 25]. 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
