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1 Cent - Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah
| Issuer | Trengganu, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1907 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The numeral '1' is centered within a diamond-shaped frame, flanked by a small star on each side. The diamond is enclosed within a dotted or beaded circle. The outer border features a continuous wreath of leaves encircling the design. The composition is simple and bold, consistent with the utilitarian character of emergency tin coinage issued for local circulation in the Malay states. |
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Terengganu's tin coinage occupies an unusual position in Southeast Asian numismatics — the sultanate was still issuing its own currency well into the twentieth century, despite British influence having steadily encroached on the peninsula since the 1870s. Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah acceded in 1904, and these cents were struck during a period when Terengganu remained the last Malay state to resist formal British control, which it did not accept until the 1909 Anglo-Siamese Treaty transferred suzerainty from Siam to Britain.
Tin was the obvious local choice — the peninsula's defining export metal. Singh's reference remains the primary authority for these issues.