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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;buckeye73, post: 4508077, member: 93155&quot;]What a fascinating search and find trek, Jason!&nbsp; Thank you for the very informative post. As a world coin type collector, it was an interesting read.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You possibly have at least one example of a Palembang tin pitis, a tin alloy Arabic script coin, which was cast in trees.&nbsp; Palembang is one of the oldest Indonesian cities and is located on the island of Sumatra by the Musi River.&nbsp; At one time, Palembang was an independent sultanate, but the Dutch East India Company imposed themselves and Dutch coinage on the locals to secure a profitable spice trade.&nbsp; The existing pitis were generally dumped into the river to make room for the Dutch coinage in the 1820’s,&nbsp; only to be partially recovered recently in hoards by local divers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frank S. Robinson, a well-known coin dealer, frequently referred to in CT threads, acquired a hoard.&nbsp; He and his assisting colleagues identified nearly 300 varieties, among 19 general types of coins and documented same with photographs,&nbsp; in a small book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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