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10 Salu'ng - Rama III
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1825 |
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| Shape | Other (Ball) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this bullet coin bears a prominently stamped Chakra (sacred wheel or discus), the emblem of the Chakri dynasty, depicted as a stylized floral rosette with a central boss surrounded by radiating petals, deeply impressed into the rounded silver surface. A secondary smaller royal mark stamp appears below the Chakra impression. The stamps are applied to the convex globular body in the traditional manner of Siamese Pot Duang coinage, consistent with issues of the reign of Rama III. |
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| Mintage | 1825: ND (1825) |
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Rama III came to the throne in 1824 under contested circumstances — he was the son of Rama II but not the queen's son, and his succession over the younger, queen-born prince created lasting court tension. The bullet coinage issued under his reign, of which this is a heavy example, continued the pod duang tradition used in Siam for centuries, each piece hand-formed and stamped rather than struck between dies in the Western sense.
The 10 Salu'ng denomination places this among the largest units in the traditional Siamese weight-based system, where value tracked directly against the baht standard. Few survive undamaged; the spherical form made these prone to surface cracking during the hammering process.