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1/8 Tical - Norodom I
| Issuer | Cambodia |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | A stylized Hamsa (sacred goose) depicted in traditional Khmer artistic style, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The mythological bird is shown in profile facing left, with an elaborately ornamented head, scaled body, and fanned tail feathers rising prominently to the right. The legs and clawed feet are rendered with fine detail, and the overall composition fills the coin's field within a raised rim. No legend or inscription appears on this face. |
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| Reverse description | A Khmer royal palace or temple facade rendered in high relief, depicted frontally and occupying most of the field. The structure features a multi-tiered, steeply pitched roofline with upswept eaves and flame-like decorative elements at the corners, surmounted by a central spire topped with a foliate finial. The central arched entrance gateway is flanked by symmetrical tiered pavilions, and the base of the structure rests on an ornamental plinth with interlaced decorative motifs. The design is executed in the traditional Khmer architectural style with no surrounding legend. |
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Norodom I did not actually take the throne until 1860, making the 1847 date on this coin anomalous — it falls during the reign of Ang Duong, under whose authority the Cambodian tical series was actually struck. The KM#33 attribution places this piece within the Ang Duong coinage, and the Norodom association in dealer cataloging has long been a source of confusion in this series. Cambodia at this moment was caught between Siamese suzerainty and encroaching French interest, and the tical coinage itself represented one of the last assertions of independent Khmer monetary production before the French Protectorate formalized in 1863.