I try to find any bit history and information about this coins but it is very hard to find valuable one. What most website is talking about Terengganu and Kelantan Pitis or Keping coin is that this coin is made following the Chinese Merchants copper cash that been used in Malay Peninsular in 8th century AD. Pitis or Keping, cast from tin is then produced during last two decade of the 18th century. I think thats why this Kelantan Pitis has a hole on its center.
Several types of tin pitis, which were cast in the form of “coin trees” were also issued. The tin coin trees were produced by the use of moulds adapted from those used by the Chinese to cast copper coins. The coins were broken off from their branches to be used as cash, and the unused metal of the tree was then re-smelted in the next casting. All issues of Kelantan local coinage were discontinued in 1909 when the Straits Settlements coinage was introduced.
Kelantan Pitis or KepingIt is probable that the name "Kelantan" on this coin is the name of the long forgotten ruler of the early Kelantan-Patani period and not a reference to the state of Kelantan.
Obverse : In Arabic "Khalifatul Muminin" (ruler of the faithful). Crude inscription.
Reverse : In Arabic "Al Julus Kelantan" (The accession year of Kelantan).
Edge : Plain
Weight : 3.70 grammes, 4.70 grammes
Diameter : 26 mm, 27 mm
Composition : Tin (round central hole)
Terengganu Keping or Pitis
Several varieties exist of this coin in varying diameters.
Obverse : In Arabic "Kali Malik Al Adil (The reign of the Just Ruler).
Reverse : Blank.
Edge : Plain
Weight :1.10 grammes, 2.20 grammes, 3.80 grammes
Diameter : 17.5 mm, 20 mm, 21.5 mm
Composition : Tin
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