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1 Salueng - Rama IV Hammering trial strike
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, with a flat, unadorned field showing no devices, legends, or inscriptions. This is consistent with the coin's status as a trial or pattern strike, likely produced to test the dies or the hammering process rather than for general circulation. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rama IV — better known in the West as King Mongkut — authorized exploratory trials of Western minting machinery in the 1850s as part of a deliberate modernization program intended to bring Siamese coinage in line with treaty-partner expectations, particularly following the Bowring Treaty of 1855. This piece is a product of that transitional moment: a hammered trial produced while the court was simultaneously evaluating flat-pressed machine coinage, which would formally replace the traditional bullet coinage within a few years.
Trial strikes of this type were never released into circulation.