Catalog
3 Units Without hole
| Issuer | Khmer Empire |
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| Year | 802-1431 |
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| Diameter | 29 mm |
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| Obverse description | Scalloped flan with a four-lobed floral outline. The central design features a concentric circle motif — a raised boss at the centre surrounded by two incuse rings — flanked by four large pellets arranged in a cruciform pattern within the field. The interstitial spaces between the pellets are filled with smaller pellet groupings and curvilinear scroll elements. The entire composition is contained within the scalloped border formed by the coin's lobed edge, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Mintage | ND (802-1431) |
| Additional information |
The Khmer monetary system remains one of the least understood in Southeast Asian numismatics. These cast tin-lead pieces circulated within an empire that left extraordinary stone monuments but almost no written commercial records, leaving scholars to reconstruct trade patterns almost entirely from the coins themselves and from Chinese diplomatic accounts.
Mitchiner's cataloguing of this type spans the full imperial period — a six-century window that makes precise dating essentially impossible without archaeological provenance.