Trengganu AH 1325 cent KM-20
This specimen was lot 76012 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $125. The catalog description[1] noted, "MALAYSIA. Trengganu. Cent, AH 1325 (1907/8). Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah. NGC EF Details--Environmental Damage." Tin, which is common in Malaya, has been used on a number of occasions to make coinage altho it is not especially suitable for such a purpose. Trengganu (now spelled Terengganu), an independent sultanate since the late 1600's, gradually fell under British influence and then control. The British maintained Trengganu as a buffer state between Thailand (then Siam) and their colony of the Straits Settlements. Trengganu was occupied by Japan in December 1941 and was transferred to Thailand 1943-45. Numista comments,
"This is an emergency issue of Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah (1920-1942). The previous Sultan's Arabic initials (س ✶ ز✶ ع = Sultan Zainul 'Abidin) was retained even though he had died in 1918 along with the mint year. This is the only official issue authorized by the British Government of the Straits Settlements. It was equivalent to the official One Cent copper coinage from its date of issue in September 1920 until August 1921 when it was withdrawn. It was reissued in March 1924 at the rate of 4 Terengganu Cents equal to 3 Copper Cents of the Straits Settlements until demonetized on 21st March 1934."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.47 g, tin, 29 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-20.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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