1 Tin Coin

Descrizione del dritto	Central field features a raised pentagonal cartouche bearing a seated Buddha figure in meditation posture, flanked by scrolling foliate or flame-like elements at either side, with horizontal line registers and Chinese characters rendered in relief below the figure. The cartouche is set against a plain, slightly convex oval flan typical of cast Malay tin coinage.
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Bordo	Plain
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Tin coinage on the Malay peninsula developed not from central monetary authority but from the needs of the tin-mining trade itself, with local chiefs and later Chinese kangchu settlers issuing their own pieces to facilitate labor payments in the mines. The informal, almost industrial origin of these coins means provenance is frequently murky and attribution to specific states — Perak, Selangor, Pahang — often rests on die typology rather than documentation. Tin was so abundant locally that these pieces were occasionally cast rather than struck, a production method that introduces significant weight variation across surviving examples.