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1 Kyat - Pagan Min Copper Pattern
| Issuer | Royal Burmese Mint (Mandalay) |
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| Year | 1853 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Burmese |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central legend in two lines of Burmese script within an open wreath of laurel branches tied with a ribbon bow at the base. The wreath frames the denomination and date inscriptions. Burmese script characters are arranged around the inner border at regular intervals, spelling out the royal city name and denomination. The entire design is enclosed within a toothed outer border consistent with the obverse, giving the pattern a uniform milled appearance. |
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Pagan Min's reign lasted barely two years before his half-brother Mindon forced him into palace confinement in February 1853 — the same month British forces completed their annexation of Lower Burma in the Second Anglo-Burmese War. These pattern pieces were struck at Mandalay as part of a nascent attempt to establish a formal royal coinage, an effort that gained no traction under Pagan Min but was eventually pursued more seriously under Mindon himself in the 1860s. Whether this copper pattern ever reached circulation consideration is doubtful given the political collapse that immediately followed.