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1 Fueang - Rama IV
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Value | 1 Fuang (1/8) |
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| Obverse description | Impressed onto the flattened face of the gold bullet-form flan is the Phra Tao (royal jar) mark, the first privy mark of King Rama IV, appearing as a stylized vessel or urn motif punched into the surface. The mark is deeply struck within a roughly oval depression, characteristic of the traditional Thai pot duang hammered coinage technique. The surrounding field retains the irregular, lumpy contours inherent to the bullet coin format. |
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| Mintage | ND (1856) - (fr) P`ra Tao (1° marque de Rama IV) |
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Rama IV — Mongkut — came to the throne in 1851 after spending 27 years as a Buddhist monk, during which he taught himself Latin and studied Western astronomy well enough to correctly predict a solar eclipse in 1868. His reign marked Thailand's first serious engagement with Western monetary conventions, and gold fueang issues of this period were struck partly to facilitate trade with European merchants who distrusted the older bullet-coin currency that had served Siam for centuries.
The transition away from the traditional pod duang coinage was politically fraught; conservative factions at court viewed flat-struck coinage as a foreign imposition. That tension kept mintages modest.