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1 Pitis - Zarb fi Bilad Palembang

Issuer Palembang, Sultanate of
Year 1710-1778
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Value 1 Pitis (0.1)
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Reverse description Plain, featureless reverse displaying a broad flat field with a central round perforation matching the obverse. The surface shows the characteristically rough, porous texture associated with cast tin coinage of the Palembang Sultanate, with no inscriptions, devices, or decorative elements present. The dark oxidized patina is typical of tin alloy pieces from this region and period. The rim is plain and slightly beveled toward the central hole.
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Mint Palembang
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Palembang's tin pitis coinage occupied a peculiar niche in the Malay monetary world — locally abundant tin made these coins cheap to produce, but their intrinsic value was so low that they circulated almost exclusively within the sultanate's internal market, with pepper and trade goods doing the heavier work in external exchange. The Musi River delta gave Palembang unusual access to both the tin-supplying interior and the VOC-dominated coastal trade, creating a bifurcated economy that these small coins served only in part.

The seventy-year span attributed to this type suggests multiple die generations rather than a single continuous issue.

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