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1 Pitis - Sultan Zain al-Abadin Muazzam Shah
| Issuer | Sultanate of Batubara (Indonesian States) |
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| Year | 1745 |
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| Composition | Tin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | مالك بتو بهار ١١٥٨ (Translation: King of Batu Bahar in the year 1158) |
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Batubara was one of several small tin-producing sultanates on Sumatra's east coast that issued pitis — low-denomination tin coins used for everyday petty transactions — largely because no outside colonial power had yet imposed a standardized currency on the region. The Dutch East India Company's grip on Sumatran trade was tightening through the mid-eighteenth century, but interior and coastal polities like Batubara retained enough autonomy to strike their own issues well into this period.
Tin was the obvious choice: Sumatra's northeast coast sat adjacent to some of the most productive tin deposits in maritime Southeast Asia.