Very crude arabic inscriptions "Masruf fi bilad Palembang" / Blank. 14mm, 0.24 grams. Robinson #10.44; Krause 123; Millies #195-197.

Crude type with the date 1219. Rare small type, very rare in high quality.

There are many varieties of this type listed in Robinson's "Palembang Coins - we make no attempt to distinguish between the many different sub-types here.

The Palembang Sultanate, founded in 1659 in southern Sumatra, controlled trade along the Musi River and became a key center for pepper and tin commerce with Chinese, Arab, and European merchants. Its rulers balanced local authority with Dutch pressure, but after conflict with the VOC, the Dutch abolished the sultanate in 1823. Though short-lived, it preserved Malay-Islamic court culture and linked Sumatra’s maritime past with the colonial era.