Catalog
1 Unit Anonymous, Tenasserim-Pegu
| Issuer | Myanmar |
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| Year | 1600-1800 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field enclosed within a raised circular inner border containing a three-line Burmese inscription in Mon-Burmese script, rendered in the flowing, cursive style typical of cast tin coinage from the Tenasserim-Pegu region. The legend is arranged horizontally across the field in three registers. The surrounding flat rim is decorated with a continuous row of raised pellets forming an outer border, consistent in style with the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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These large tin "basket money" pieces from the Tenasserim-Pegu region circulated in one of Southeast Asia's most contested trading zones, where Burmese, Siamese, and European mercantile interests collided repeatedly across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tin was locally abundant — the Tenasserim coast held some of the richest deposits in mainland Asia — making it a logical monetary material when silver was scarce or hoarded during the near-continuous warfare between Toungoo and Ayutthaya.
Attribution remains genuinely difficult. "Anonymous" is the honest answer: no issuing authority has been conclusively established, and several of these types were likely produced by local merchants rather than any central mint.