1⁄100 Unit Mi-Chen

These fractional silver pieces circulated across the Pyu city-states, a network of urbanized polities that flourished in the Irrawaddy valley long before the Burman kingdom at Pagan consolidated the region. The Pyu were the first people in mainland Southeast Asia known to have struck coinage, and their monetary system shows clear Indic influence transmitted through trade contacts with Bengal and Orissa rather than through any direct political subordination.

At one one-hundredth of a unit, this denomination was genuinely transactional currency — too small for hoarding, too precise for ceremony.