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1 Pitis - Amaluddin Deli
| Issuer | Sultanate of Deli (Indonesian States) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Sultanate of Deli, based on the northeast coast of Sumatra, issued tin coinage during a period when the Dutch were still consolidating nominal control over the region's petty states. This pitis dates to well before the 1870 tobacco boom that would transform Deli into one of the most economically significant territories in the Dutch East Indies — and long before the 1872 treaty that effectively subordinated the sultanate to Batavia. Tin was the practical monetary metal of the Malay world, locally available and long used across Sumatra, the Peninsula, and Borneo for low-denomination exchange.
Sultan Amaluddin Mangedar Shah ruled during a period of relative local autonomy that would not last another generation.