Catalog
1 Salung - Phetracha Ayutthaya
| Issuer | Kingdom of Ayutthaya |
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| Year | 1688-1709 |
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| Value | 1 Salung (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | A single conch shell (sankha) motif impressed into the upper surface of the hammered silver bullet-form flan, punched in low relief characteristic of Ayutthaya-period pod duang coinage. The device is rendered in a stylized manner, with the spiral form of the shell visible within a shallow incuse impression. The lower portion of the flan presents a characteristic open seam or fold resulting from the folding and hammering technique used to produce the bullet coin form. No legend or inscription appears. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Phetracha seized the Ayutthayan throne in 1688 through a coup that also expelled the French garrison from Bangkok and effectively ended Narai's pro-Western foreign policy. The political rupture was total — Greek adviser Constantine Phaulkon was executed within weeks, and Siam's brief experiment with European alliance collapsed overnight. Coinage issued under Phetracha therefore marks the opening of a deliberately isolationist reign.
Bullet coinage of this type was produced by folding and hammering silver rod into a roughly spherical planchet, a technique Ayutthaya maintained for centuries without mechanization.