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1⁄128 Baht - Pseudo-Anonymous Issue
| Issuer | Maritime Southeast Asia |
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| Year | 1700-1800 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1700-1800) |
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Fractional gold coinages of this type circulated across the trading networks of the Gulf of Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, where small-denomination specie was essential for transactions that larger bullion pieces couldn't accommodate. The issuing authority behind pseudo-anonymous pieces like this one remains deliberately obscure — produced outside official royal mints, likely by merchant communities or local intermediaries operating within the port economy rather than any centralized polity.
At 0.13 g, consistent purity was the only guarantee of value. The Krischer/Mihailovic reference corpus remains the primary scholarly tool for attributing these.