½ Pya - Bodawpaya

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.