1 Tical - Ang Duong Replica Pattern

Ang Duong, who ruled as king under joint Siamese and Vietnamese suzerainty from 1840, made deliberate efforts to reassert Khmer administrative independence — issuing coinage was part of that project. The original 1847 tical was among Cambodia's first attempts at a Western-style round coinage, a format encouraged by his exposure to regional trading currencies. This piece is a later replica pattern, not a product of the original issue, and its white metal composition places it firmly outside any official 19th-century Cambodian mint output.