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1 Pitis - Kali Malik Al-Adil

Issuer Trengganu, Sultanate of
Year 1700-1800
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Currency Keping (1709-1909)
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Obverse lettering كالي مالك العادل
(Translation: The reign of the Just Ruler)
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Mintage ND (1700-1800)
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Trengganu's tin pitis circulated in a coastal economy where the metal itself was locally abundant — the peninsula's tin trade dominated regional commerce long before European powers formalized their control over it. These small-denomination pieces were functional exchange tokens in a market economy that ran on them by the thousands, which is precisely why so few survive in any condition worth noting.

Kali Malik Al-Adil is not among the better-documented Trengganu rulers, and attributing these pieces to a specific reign within the broad 18th-century window remains contested among specialists. Singh's SS 32–34 grouping acknowledges the ambiguity rather than resolving it.

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