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THE OBSOLETE MÁLAY TIN CURRENCY
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Figs. 3 and 4 are of a piece that goes at the value of four Deneers.86 Figs. 5 and 6 are three Shells (cowries), whereof they give fifty for the little piece of Tin."
Plate marked to face p. 7 of Tavernier's Travels. The money of the king of Beda [for Cheda] and Pera (Kedah and Perak]
(“That great piece of tin which weighs an ounce and a half",86
All that Millies could find of this coin 200 years later in Paris, when it had beconie much worn, is given below.87 It is an indication of the liberties taken by Tavernier's engraver.
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Tavernier's statement therefore exhibits an instructive scale. 50 cowries
= 1 little piece (kepeng, pitis, cash). 3 little pieces (cash) = 1 son (cent). 100 sou (cent)
= 1 dollar.
1500087a cowries or 300 cash to the dollar. " Figs. 8 and 4 of Tavernier's plato show regularly minted coin with an Arabio inscription on the reverse. Its value of 4 deniers abows that it was vou or oent; i.e. it was a kepeng pitis or cash. Millies, Recherches sur les Monnaies Malaies, p. 192, thinks he can read the date 1041 A. H. on this coin = A.D. 1831.
* The misfortunes that have happened to Tavernier's plates of Malay money at the hands of subsequent writers are detailed on p. of Millios, Recherches sur les Monnaies Malaies, 1871.
07 Op. cit., p. 130 and PL. XXII., No. 230. Ma This giyen 7500 cowries to the ropeo, a fair average number; nee ante, Vol. XXVI., PP. 290 ff.
