1/2 Pitis - Malik Al-Adil Khalifatul Mu'minin

The Sultanate of Trengganu occupied an awkward political position in the late eighteenth century — nominally under Siamese suzerainty while simultaneously courting the English East India Company, a tension that shaped its coinage as much as its diplomacy. Tin pitis of this period circulated alongside imported Chinese cash coins and Spanish silver, none of which were ever fully adequate for the low-value transactions that drove the local bazaar economy. The half pitis filled that gap at the smallest denomination the mint produced.

Malik al-Adil's reign saw Trengganu's tin casting traditions persist well past the point where neighboring Malay states had begun transitioning to struck coinage.