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1 Pitis - Muhammad II
| Issuer | Sultanate of Kelantan (Islamic states of Malaysia) |
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| Year | 1300 (1883) |
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| Value | 1 Pitis (0.1) |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب في جمادى الاخرة ١٣٠٠ |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Kelantan pitis occupies an awkward corner of numismatic history — a tin coinage issued by a sultanate that was, by 1883, increasingly entangled in Siamese tributary obligations while simultaneously attracting British commercial interest from the south. Muhammad II ruled under these competing pressures, and the pitis continued as the everyday small-change currency of the bazaar long after silver coinage had retreated from practical circulation in the region. Tin was abundant in the peninsula, and the metal's low intrinsic value made it the only realistic option for fractional trade coinage at this scale.
Kelantan would not fall under formal British protection until 1909, when the Anglo-Siamese Treaty transferred suzerainty.