This concave disc-shaped silver coin is stamped with a four-petaled sandalwood flower design within a square depression. On the reverse side, the silver coin is inscribed with the Sanskrit character ‘ma’, which perhaps refers to ‘masa’, a measurement of weight to indicate the weight of silver the coin was supposed to contain. Javanese coins were used as currency around the 7th century to about 1350, when Chinese bronze coins replaced them as the main medium of exchange. Silver coins were generally more widely used in Java than gold coins.
