1 Kyat - Pagan Min White Metal Pattern

Pagan Min's reign lasted barely three years before the Second Anglo-Burmese War ended it. Britain annexed Lower Burma in 1852, and Pagan Min was deposed the following year by his half-brother Mindon, who inherited both the throne and whatever remained of Konbaung monetary ambitions. This pattern almost certainly predates the annexation, placing it in the window when Burmese authorities were still experimenting with Western-style coinage — a project the conquest rendered academic.

White metal patterns of this type are known in tiny numbers, surviving almost exclusively in institutional collections.