SULTAN MUHAMMED BAHAUDDIN 1776-1803
PALEMBANG MINT.
FROM 5 TO 11th CENTURY WAS PALEMBANG THE CAPITAL OF THE BUDDHIST DOMINATED KINGDOM OF SRIVIJAYA
THE DESCENT BEGAN IN THE 11th CENTURY WITH PIRATES FROM JAVA AND SOUTH INDIA.
SINCE THE ISLAMIZATION OF SUMATRA IN THE 16th CENTURY IT WAS CAPITAL OF THE SULTANATE.
THE DUTCH INFLUENCE BEGAN IN THE 17th CENTURY, IN 1825 THE SULTANATE WAS ABOLISHED AND THE CITY FELL UNDER DUTCH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION THAT LASTED UNTIL THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDONESIA 1949.
SULTAN MUHAMMAD BAHAUDDIN BUILT THE PALACE KUTO BESAK.
IN 1821 THE DUTCH ATTACKED AGAIN AND TAKE THE PALEMBANG CITY.
FROM THE 12 TO 15th CENTURY,MANY CHINESE SQUARE-HOLED BRONZE COINS KNOWN AS CASH WERE IMPORTED INTO THE MALAY PENINSULA AND THE ISLANDS WHICH MAKE UP MODERN DAY INDONESIA,INCLUDING SUMATRA.THE IMPORTED CASH BECAME THE STANDARD FORM OF SMALL CHANGE IN THE REGION.FROM THE 17th CENTURY LOCAL COPIES CALLED PITIS WERE MADE OFTEN INSCRIBED IN ARABIC SCRIPT,BECAUSE MOST OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE HAD BECOME MUSLIMS.THIS PITIS FROM SUMATRA IS INSCRIBED IN ARABIC COPPER COIN IN THE KINGDOM OF PALEMBANG YEAR 1198.THE YEAR GIVEN ACCORDING TO THE MUSLIM CALENDER IS EQUIVALENT TO AD1783,THE REVERSE OF THE COIN IS BLANK
