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Cambodia - Slin
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Diameter | 13.9 mm |
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| Obverse description | A Hamsa (sacred goose) depicted in profile facing right, rendered in a stylized Southeast Asian artistic tradition typical of Khmer coinage. The bird is shown in a walking or striding posture with wings partially raised. A cross patée motif appears beneath the bird in the lower field, accompanied by a circle device to the left. The design is crudely struck on an irregularly shaped flan, characteristic of Cambodian hammered billon coinage of the period. |
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| Mintage | ? |
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The Slin — one-eighth of a Fuang — circulated during the reign of Norodom I, issued as Cambodia struggled to maintain a functioning indigenous coinage system under increasing French pressure. Paris formally established the Protectorate in 1863, and within two decades French Indochinese currency had largely displaced native Khmer issues from everyday commerce. Surviving Slins in billon are considerably scarcer than their copper counterparts, as the alloy varied opportunistically with whatever metal the Phnom Penh mint had available.