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1/4 Tical - Norodom I Pattern
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Value | 1 Salong = 1/4 Tical |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a standing figure of Garuda, the mythical bird-deity of Khmer iconography, rendered in high relief in a dynamic martial posture with both arms raised and wings spread, wearing traditional Khmer regalia and a pointed crown. Decorative floral and foliate scroll elements flank the figure on either side, filling the field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border running along the coin's periphery. The style reflects the traditional Khmer artistic convention employed on Cambodian royal coinage of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1880) - Pattern |
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This pattern was produced in Paris as part of a broader French colonial effort to establish a unified Indochinese monetary system under Protectorate authority. Norodom I had signed the 1863 protectorate treaty under considerable pressure, and French administrators used coinage proposals like this one to assert fiscal control over the kingdom. The white metal striking indicates a trial or presentation piece — likely submitted for official approval rather than intended for circulation.
No regular-issue 1/4 Tical in this series entered production for Cambodia specifically. The pattern remains one of the few physical artifacts of a monetary framework that was largely superseded by the broader Indochinese piastre system in the following decade.