Item number: A1395

Year: AD 1865-1885

Material: Silver

Size: 13.9 x 13.9 mm

Manufactured by: Mandalay Mint

Provenance: Fuchin Coin 2024

This is a 1 Mu silver coin minted between AD 1865 and AD 1885 during the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) at the mechanised mint in the capital, Mandalay.

The obverse of the coin features the national emblem of the Konbaung Dynasty, a peacock in full display, which symbolises royal power in Burma. Surrounding the peacock is the Burmese inscription “တံဆိပ်တော်”, meaning “Royal Seal.”

The reverse side is influenced by the design of the British Indian rupee, featuring a floral wreath. The outer circle contains the Burmese inscription “ရတနာပုံနေပြည်တော်”, meaning “Land of Jewels.” The inner circle bears the inscription “၁ုသုံး / ၁၂၁၄”, denoting the coin’s denomination “1 Mu” and the Burmese calendar year “1214.”

The Burmese calendar year 1214 corresponds to AD 1853, which marks the year of King Mindon’s ascension to the throne of the Konbaung Dynasty. King Mindon, the penultimate monarch of the dynasty, was a strong proponent of modernising the country.

In AD 1852, Burma was defeated by Britain in the Second Anglo-Burmese War, leading to the cession of Lower Burma along the coastline to the British. King Mindon, who was the half-brother of the then ruler King Pagan, seized the opportunity to stage a coup, overthrowing King Pagan. He subsequently engaged in peace negotiations with the British and initiated several modernisation reforms.

In AD 1863, Burma commissioned Scottish traders to acquire coin-minting machinery from France, and by AD 1865, they successfully established a mint in the capital, Mandalay. This marked the beginning of the production of silver coins featuring the peacock emblem of the Konbaung Dynasty.

In AD 1878, King Mindon passed away and was succeeded by his son, King Thibaw. However, in AD 1885, during the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma was unable to resist the British invasion and was fully annexed. It became a province under British India, marking the end of the Konbaung Dynasty’s rule.

物件編號: A1395

年代: 公元 1865-1885 年

材質: 銀

尺寸: 13.9 x 13.9 mm

製造地: 曼德勒鑄幣廠

來源: 福君錢幣 2024

這是一枚公元1865至1885年間，緬甸貢榜王朝以首都曼德勒的機械鑄幣廠所鑄造的面額1姆銀幣。

錢幣正面是貢榜王朝的國徽，一隻開屏的孔雀，孔雀在緬甸是王權的象徵。孔雀周圍的緬甸文「တံဆိပ်တော်」意思為「皇家印章」。錢幣背面則是受到英屬印度盧比影響的花環設計，花環外圍的緬甸文「ရတနာပုံနေပြည်တော်」意指「珠寶之國」，內圈的銘文「၁ုသုံး / ၁၂၁၄」分別是錢幣面額「1姆」和緬曆紀年「1214」。

緬曆紀年1214換算為公元1853年，即貢榜王朝的倒數第二位君王，極力推動國家現代化的國王敏東登基的年份。公元1852年，緬甸在第二次英緬戰爭敗於英國，時任統治者的蒲甘王被迫割讓沿岸的下緬甸地區。敏東作為蒲甘王的同父異母兄弟，趁勢發動政變推翻蒲甘王和英國進行和談，並且推動多項近代化的改革。公元1863年，緬甸委託蘇格蘭商人向法國購買鑄幣機器，成功於公元1865年在首都曼德勒建立鑄幣廠，開始鑄造帶有孔雀國徽的銀幣。

公元1878年，敏東王過世後由兒子錫袍繼位。然而在公元1885年，第三次英緬戰爭中，緬甸不敵英國的入侵遭到全面併吞，成為英屬印度轄下的一省。