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1 Kupang - Malik al-Adil
| Issuer | Sultanate of Kelantan (Islamic states of Malaysia) |
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| Year | 1800-1850 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (1800-1850) |
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The kupang was the smallest gold denomination in circulation across the Malay peninsula, functioning as fractional currency within a monetized economy that ran heavily on the tin trade and tributary exchanges with Siam. Kelantan's position as a vassal state — paying gold to Bangkok while simultaneously asserting its own Islamic coinage — meant these tiny pieces carried real political weight far beyond their mass.
The title Malik al-Adil, "the Just King," was a formulaic honorific rather than a name tied to a specific sultan, which is why attribution to an individual reign within this fifty-year window remains unresolved.