Palembang pitis, the Glossary
The Palembang pitis (also spelled pitjis) was a currency issued by the Palembang Sultanate from the 1600s until 1825 when the sultanate was dissolved and its territory taken over by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies.[1]
Table of Contents
42 relations: Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, Arabic script, Bangka, Bangka Island, Banten Sultanate, Black pepper, British Museum, Brunei pitis, Cash (Chinese coin), Cash coins in Indonesia, Cast coinage, Chinese characters, Chinese Indonesians, Common Era, Copper, Demak Sultanate, Dutch East India Company, Dutch East India Company coinage, Dutch East Indies, Early Nusantara coins, Hendrik Merkus de Kock, Hijrah, Hijri year, Hokkien, Islamic calendar, Jambi Sultanate, Jawi script, Kampar Regency, Lead, Mahmud Badaruddin I, Mahmud Badaruddin II, Malay language, Mandarin Chinese, Palembang, Palembang Sultanate, Rattan, Spanish dollar, Sultanate of Cirebon, Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura, Tin, Traditional Chinese characters, Varieties of Chinese.
- Currencies of Indonesia
Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 (also known as the Convention of London; Verdrag van Londen) was signed by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands in London on 13 August 1814.
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Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
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Bangka
Bangka may refer to.
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Bangka Island
Bangka is an island lying east of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Banten Sultanate
The Banten Sultanate (ᮊᮞᮥᮜ᮪ᮒᮔᮔ᮪ ᮘᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪|Kasultanan Banten|script.
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Black pepper
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning.
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
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Brunei pitis
The pitis was a currency of Brunei last issued in 1868 which circulated into the 20th century.
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Cash (Chinese coin)
The cash or qian was a type of coin of China and the Sinosphere, used from the 4th century BC until the 20th century AD, characterised by their round outer shape and a square center hole.
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Cash coins in Indonesia
The cash coins of Indonesia (Kepeng; Pis Bolong; Picis, Pitjis, or Gobog) was a historical currency in Indonesia based on Chinese imperial coinage during the Tang dynasty era (dynasty based in Mainland China). Palembang pitis and cash coins in Indonesia are Currencies of Indonesia and economy of Indonesia.
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Cast coinage
Cast coinage refers to coins made by pouring melted metal into a mold, i.e. casting.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Chinese Indonesians
Chinese Indonesians (Orang Tionghoa Indonesia), or simply Orang Tionghoa or Tionghoa, are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries.
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Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Demak Sultanate
The Demak Sultanate was a Javanese Muslim state located on Java's north coast in Indonesia, at the site of the present-day city of Demak.
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Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
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Dutch East India Company coinage
The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, often known as VOC) was a chartered company which issued a considerable series of coinage in bronze, silver and gold for its territories in the Far East between 1602 and 1799. Palembang pitis and Dutch East India Company coinage are Currencies of Indonesia.
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlands(ch)-Indië) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
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Early Nusantara coins
By the 10th-century, Java had one of the most complex economies in Southeast Asia.
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Hendrik Merkus de Kock
Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock (25 May 1779 – 12 April 1845) was a Dutch general and nobleman who served in the Batavian Navy as Lieutenant Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1826 to 1830.
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Hijrah
The Hijrah (hijra, originally 'a severing of ties of kinship or association'), also Hegira (from Medieval Latin), was the journey the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina.
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Hijri year
The Hijri year (سَنة هِجْريّة) or era (التقويمالهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar.
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Hokkien
Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.
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Islamic calendar
The Hijri calendar (translit), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
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Jambi Sultanate
The Jambi Sultanate (Jawi:,: Kesultanan Jambi), alternatively known as Djambi, was a sultanate that was centered in the modern-day province of Jambi in Indonesia.
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Jawi script
Jawi (جاوي; Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Malay, Mëranaw, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate.
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Kampar Regency
Kampar is a regency (kabupaten) of Riau Province of Indonesia.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
Mahmud Badaruddin I
Mahmud Badaruddin I, also known as Jayo Wikramo, was the fourth regent of the Palembang Sultanate in Palembang, South Sumatra.
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Mahmud Badaruddin II
Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II (1767–1852) was the 8th Sultan of the Palembang Sultanate from 1804–1821.
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Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Palembang
Palembang (Palembang: Pelémbang, Jawi) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra.
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Palembang Sultanate
The Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam (Malay: كسلطانن ڤلمبڠ دارالسلام) was a sultanate in Indonesia whose capital was the city of Palembang in the southern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Rattan
Rattan, also spelled ratan (from Malay: rotan), is the name for roughly 600 species of Old World climbing palms belonging to subfamily Calamoideae.
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Spanish dollar
The Spanish dollar, also known as the piece of eight (real de a ocho, dólar, peso duro, peso fuerte or peso), is a silver coin of approximately diameter worth eight Spanish reales.
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Sultanate of Cirebon
The Sultanate of Cirebon (Kesultanan Cirebon, Pegon:, Kasultanan Cirebon) was an Islamic sultanate in West Java founded in the 15th century.
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Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura
The Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura, often called Sultanate of Siak (Kesultanan Siak Sri Inderapura; Jawi), was a kingdom that was located in present-day Siak Regency, and nearby other regions from 1722 to 1949.
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Tin
Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.
Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages.
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Varieties of Chinese
There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
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See also
Currencies of Indonesia
- Cash coins in Indonesia
- Dutch East India Company coinage
- Dutch New Guinean gulden
- Indonesian 1,000-rupiah coin
- Indonesian 100,000 rupiah note
- Indonesian 100-rupiah coin
- Indonesian 2,000 rupiah note
- Indonesian 200-rupiah coin
- Indonesian 25-rupiah coin
- Indonesian 50-rupiah coin
- Indonesian 500-rupiah coin
- Indonesian rupiah
- Japanese government–issued currency in the Dutch East Indies
- Netherlands Indies guilder
- Palembang pitis
- Riau rupiah
- Sumatran dollar
- West Irian rupiah
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palembang_pitis
Also known as Palembang coin, Palembang coinage, Palembang coins, Pitis Bountou, Pitis Buntu, Pitis Teboh.