1/4 Tical Pattern

This pattern was struck in the context of King Ang Duong's effort to modernize Cambodian coinage after decades of reliance on Vietnamese-administered currency and the crude bullet-shaped tical pieces that preceded it. Ang Duong, who came to power under Siamese and Vietnamese suzerainty, pursued monetary reform partly as an assertion of royal authority — the 1848 patterns represent early exploratory strikes, likely produced or supervised with outside technical assistance, that never reached circulation.

White metal trial pieces of this type are rarely encountered; most known examples have been in institutional or major private collections since the nineteenth century.