1/4 Pe - Mindon Min

Mindon Min's copper coinage of 1866 was among the first machine-struck currency produced for the Konbaung dynasty, minted in Mandalay after Mindon established his royal mint partly to assert Burmese economic independence as British pressure on the kingdom intensified following the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852. The fractional pe denominations were intended to integrate into a decimal-adjacent system Mindon was developing — a project cut short by his death in 1878 and the eventual British annexation of Upper Burma in 1885.