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INDONESIA: SUMATRA: Benculen Presidency, AR fanam (1.02g), ND (ca. 1690s), Choice VF

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INDONESIA: SUMATRA: Benculen Presidency, AR fanam (1.02g), ND (ca. 1690s), Choice VF
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INDONESIA: SUMATRA: Benculen Presidency, AR fanam (1.02g), ND (ca. 1690s), KM-2, struck at Madras by the British East India Company for use at Bencoolen (Fort York), GCE balemark (for "Governor and Company of Merchants Trading to the East Indies") // angrez kampani ("English Company") in crude Jawi, Choice VF, R. The Bencoolen Presidency was a British possession in Sumatra based in the area of what is now Bengkulu City. In 1785 it was downgraded to Bencoolen Residency and placed under the Bengal Presidency. The British ceded Fort Marlborough and Benkulen (Bengkulu) to the Dutch as part of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. This undated type was struck at some point between the 1680s and early 1700s.