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1 Pitis - Malik Al-Adil
| Issuer | Trengganu, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1700-1800 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Trengganu's tin pitis coinage circulated within a regional monetary ecosystem that ran almost entirely on the metal — the Malay Peninsula's abundant alluvial tin deposits made it the practical currency of small transactions for centuries, long before European colonial administrators attempted to rationalize the system. The sultanate operated with considerable autonomy through most of the eighteenth century, owing nominal suzerainty to Johor but largely conducting its own affairs, including its own issues.
The attribution to Malik Al-Adil places this within a specific reign sequence that Singh and Mitchiner treat with some disagreement on precise dating boundaries.