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Issuing authority

Sultanate of Palembang

Kind
sultanate
Region
Southeast Asia, Asia

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

6

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

6 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1769 – 1801

6 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Palembang, Sumatra, Sultan Muhammad Bahauddin, pitis

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Palembang, Sumatra, Sultan Muhammad Bahauddin, pitis

1769 - 1798

Tin coin. Obverse: circumscription in Arabic characters, between which is the year in the Islamic calendar. Reverse, smooth. In the centre a round hole. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4378; its record gives material recorded as tin (metal); technique casting; measurements diameter 1.9 cm x…

Documented

Partial type record

Pitji of Palembang, Sumatra, pitji

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Pitji of Palembang, Sumatra, pitji

1769 - 1821

Coin, obverse: without legend. Reverse: plain. Round hole in the centre. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4384-A; its record gives material recorded as tin (metal); technique casting; measurements diameter 1.8 cm x weight 0.44 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Piti of Sultan Muhammad Baha'uddin of Palembang, Sumatra, AH 1193 (1779)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Piti of Sultan Muhammad Baha'uddin of Palembang, Sumatra, AH 1193 (1779)

1779

Tin coin. Obverse: three-line inscription in Arabic characters, between which the date in the Islamic calendar. Reverse: smooth. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4373; its record gives material recorded as tin (metal); technique casting; measurements diameter 1.5 cm x weight 0.48 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Palembang, Sumatra, Sultan Muhammad Bahauddin, pitis, AH 1203 (1788)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Palembang, Sumatra, Sultan Muhammad Bahauddin, pitis, AH 1203 (1788)

1788 - 1789

Tin coin. Obverse: circumscription in Arabic characters, between which is the year in the Islamic calendar. Reverse, smooth. In the centre a round hole. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4376; its record gives material recorded as tin (metal); technique casting; measurements diameter 1.8 cm x…

Documented

Partial type record

Pitis of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II of Palembang, Sumatra, AH 1219 (1804)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Pitis of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II of Palembang, Sumatra, AH 1219 (1804)

1798 - 1821

Tin octagonal coin. Obverse: without inscription. Reverse: smooth. In the centre, a round hole. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4383; its record gives material recorded as tin (metal); technique casting; measurements diameter 1.8 cm x weight 0.73 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Palembang, Sumatra, Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, pitis, AH 1216 (1801)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Palembang, Sumatra, Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, pitis, AH 1216 (1801)

1801

Tin octagonal coin. Obverse: circumscription in Arabic characters, between which is the year in the Islamic calendar. Reverse, smooth. In the centre a round hole. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4379; its record gives material recorded as tin (metal); technique casting; measurements diamete…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 18th century5
  • 19th century1

Only the 6 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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