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| Issuer | Trengganu, Sultanate of |
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| 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.