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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1724113, member: 9204&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_DSC_0193.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>INDONESIA, Sultanate of Palembang. </b>Circa AD 1790&#039;s-1821</p> <p style="text-align: center">Tin Cash (20mm, 0.61 g)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Palembang mint</p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Shi Dan Li Bao</i> in Hànzì</p> <p style="text-align: center">Blank&nbsp; &nbsp; </p> <p style="text-align: center">T.D. Yih, &quot;Tiny Pitis Inscribed &#039;Shi-Dan&#039; (Sultan) from Palembang,&quot; in <i>ONS Newsletter</i> 204 (Summer 2010), type I-1</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Found in Palembang</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Hang Li Po first appears in the Malay Annals as a Chinese princess sent to be the fifth bride of sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca. However, there is no reference to this event in official Ming documents. Li Po may merely be a beautiful concubine given to the Sultan. Alternatively, she may be the daughter of an otherwise unknown Chinese ruler in the area, to whom this coin may perhaps be attributed. </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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