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2 Pe / 1/2 Fuang - Hamsa
| Issuer | Kingdom of Cambodia |
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| Year | 1847-1860 |
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| Currency | Tical (1431-1880) |
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| Reverse description | Plain, uniface reverse with no design, legend, or device, presenting a smooth to slightly granular silver surface consistent with the hammered planchet technique. The flan edges are irregular and unrefined, typical of hand-struck Cambodian coinage of the period. The field displays natural flow lines and minor surface variations resulting from the striking process. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cambodia's indigenous coinage tradition by the mid-nineteenth century was already being squeezed between Siamese political dominance and French colonial ambitions that would culminate in the 1863 protectorate. These small silver pieces circulated in a kingdom that had been a Siamese vassal state since 1846, the year before this type's issue began — a diplomatic settlement that left Cambodia nominally sovereign but practically dependent on Bangkok for its throne.
The hamsa, a sacred goose of Hindu-Buddhist cosmology, carried deep Khmer royal legitimacy reaching back to Angkorian precedent.