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¼ Pe (Pice) - Bodawpaya (Center hole)
| Issuer | Myanmar |
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| Year | 1782 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Obverse description | Four lines of Burmese script inscription arranged around a central circular perforation, filling the entire field. The legend is rendered in raised relief in the Mon-Burmese script tradition and is contained within a denticled outer border. The characters are boldly struck and occupy the upper, middle, and lower registers of the coin face, with the central hole serving as a focal point dividing the text. |
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| Mint | Kolkata / Calcutta / Murshidabad, India (1757-date) |
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Bodawpaya seized the Burmese throne in 1782 after executing his rivals within the Konbaung dynasty, then immediately set about standardizing administration across a fractured kingdom. This coinage belongs to the very opening of his reign — one of the longest in Burmese history, stretching to 1819. The central hole, a feature borrowed from broader Southeast Asian monetary practice, allowed coins to be strung in counted lots for market transactions rather than weighed individually.