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1 Salueng - Rama IV
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1860 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central design featuring three tiered pagodas (prasat) arranged in a triangular composition, the tallest central spire surmounted by radiating sunbeams. The two flanking towers rise from ornate foliate bases, with decorative floral and scrollwork elements filling the field between them. Small six-pointed stars appear to the left and right within the inner field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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 accurately predict a solar eclipse in 1868. His reign saw Thailand's first machine-struck coinage, introduced partly to satisfy foreign merchants who distrusted the older bullet-shaped pod duang coins that had circulated for centuries. The Royal Mint in Bangkok received equipment from Britain, and production of flat, round coinage began in the late 1850s.
The salueng is one quarter of a baht — a subdivision rooted in traditional Thai weight standards that predated the coinage itself by generations.