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1 Pitis

Issuer Sultanate of Batubara (Indonesian States)
Year 1740-1750
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Reference(s) KM#3
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Obverse script Arabic
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Batubara was a small Malay sultanate on Sumatra's northeast coast, operating in the shadow of larger powers — Aceh to the north, the Dutch VOC tightening its regional grip throughout the 1740s. Tin coinage of this type was cast rather than struck, a method typical of the Malay world that produced irregular flans and variable surface quality as a matter of course, not defect.

KM#3 is one of very few attributed issues for Batubara, and surviving examples rarely appear in Western auction records.

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