410, Lot: 508. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, Islamic Sultanates. Sumadra-Pasai. Abdallah I. AH 781-circa 803 / AD 1379-circa 1400 . AV Mas (10mm, 0.61 g, 10h). Leyten SP 9b; Millies –; Mitchiner, South 746; Mitchiner, Non-Islamic –. Good VF.

From the Norman Frank Collection.

In Sumadra-Pasai and Acheh, the mas was a coin based on the Indian standard and weighing about 0.6 grams. Elsewhere in the region, the Chinese standard dominated, and a coin of this weight would be referred to as a kupang, one fourth of a mas (Leyten p. 204-9).