Coins, Malayan states, Kedah. Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Zanial Abidin Muassam Shah (1710-73), SS 20c, Tin Animal Money. Rooster with six rings, very rare to find intact with all rings. The cock was worth five cents of the Spanish Dollar while each attached ring was worth an additional cent of value. The rings were broken off for small transactions and used as one cent pieces. These circulated as late as the 1850s when the rings were worth ten pieces of the Singapore Merchants one Keping tokens. XF.
