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½ Pya - Bodawpaya
| Issuer | Myanmar |
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| Year | 1782 |
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| Value | ½ Pya (1⁄160) |
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| Reverse description | Two naturalistic fish rendered in profile, depicted facing right and arranged one above the other in the open field. The fish display detailed scale and fin work, serving as the traditional royal emblem of the Konbaung dynasty. The surrounding field is plain and unadorned, with no border or legend, lending a bold, emblematic quality to the device. |
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| Mintage | 1143 (1782) - 1782, but issued 1797 |
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Bodawpaya seized the Burmese throne in 1782 after orchestrating the execution of his nephews and several rival claimants, founding what became the Konbaung dynasty's longest-reigning branch. This copper issue is among the earliest struck coinage attributable to his reign, a period when Burma was simultaneously consolidating domestic control and preparing the military campaigns that would annex Arakan in 1784 — displacing tens of thousands and triggering a refugee crisis that brought the Konbaung court into its first sustained friction with British India.