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1/4 Pe - Thibaw Min
| Issuer | Myanmar |
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| Year | 1879 |
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| Value | 1/4 Pe (1⁄80) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting the Manussiha, the mythical half-lion, half-deer creature of Burmese heraldic tradition, shown in profile facing left with the body of a deer and the upper torso and head of a lion. Burmese script characters appear in the field surrounding the creature. The design is contained within a milled border of fine tooth-like denticles running along the coin's rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thibaw Min was the last king of Burma, and 1879 fell in the early years of his reign — a period of court consolidation following a succession purge in which dozens of rival princes were executed. His coinage was struck at the royal mint in Mandalay under a kingdom already under severe pressure from British commercial encroachment in the south. The brass alloy of this quarter pe places it as a lower-denomination workhorse, circulating among a population whose sovereign would be deposed and exiled to Ratnagiri, India, just six years after this piece was struck.