Item number: A1434

Year: AD 1710-1778

Material: Tin

Size: 18.8 x 18.5 x 0.3 mm

Weight: 0.65 g

Provenance: Teutoburger Münzauktion GmbH 2023

This is a “Pitis” tin coin minted between AD 1710 to AD 1778. The term “Pitis” in Malay means “thin” or “light.”

This coin’s design is modelled after the square-holed coins brought by Chinese merchants or pirates who had long engaged in trade in the Southeast Asia region. The coin features a central hole for stringing. Around the coin’s perimeter, it is inscribed in Jawi script, which was commonly used in the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago, reading “ضرب في بلد ڤلمبڠ دار السلام,” which translates to “Minted by the Sultan on the land of Palembang.”

Palembang is an important trading port located in the southern part of Sumatra Island, facing the South China Sea. Prior to the Age of Exploration, its advantageous position as a seaport, along with the abundance of pepper and tin, attracted merchants from China, India, and the Arab world for trade. In AD 1511, following the Portuguese conquest of the neighbouring Sultanate of Malacca, many of the Malaccan nobility fled to Sumatra, accelerating the Islamisation of Palembang and other areas.

In AD 1659, the Sultanate with Palembang as its capital was established. In AD 1825, the Dutch East India Company, headquartered in Batavia on Java Island, successfully destroyed the Palembang Sultanate and incorporated it into its colonial rule.

物件編號: A1434

年代: 公元 1710-1778 年

材質: 錫

尺寸: 18.8 x 18.5 x 0.3 mm

重量: 0.65 g

來源: 條頓堡錢幣拍賣 2023

這是一枚公元1710至1778年，印尼蘇門答臘島的巨港蘇丹國鑄造之「皮蒂斯」錫幣，在馬來語有「輕薄」的意思。

這一枚錢幣的形制，模仿跟東南亞地區進行悠久貿易的中國商人或海盜帶來的方孔錢，錢幣中間有一個用以穿繫的圓孔。錢幣周圍以馬來半島和印尼群島通行的爪夷文標示「ضرب في بلد ڤلمبڠ دار السلام」意思是「蘇丹鑄造於巨港的土地」。

巨港是坐落於蘇門答臘島南部，面朝南中國海的一個重要商港。於地理大發現以前憑藉著優良的海港地位以及盛產胡椒和錫，吸引來自中國、印度和阿拉伯世界的商人前往此地貿易。公元1511年，隨著葡萄牙征服鄰近的麻六甲蘇丹國，許多來自麻六甲的貴族避居於蘇門答臘，加速了巨港等地的伊斯蘭化。

公元1659年，以巨港為首都的蘇丹政權成立。公元1825年，以爪哇島的巴達維亞為總部的荷蘭東印度公司成功消滅巨港蘇丹國，將其劃入自身的殖民統治。