Siam / Thailand Coins
Second Anglo Burmese War
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Coin Details
| Origin/Country: |
BURMA & MYANMAR |
| Item Description: |
KYAT CS1214(1852) Burma LETTERING AROUND PEACOCK |
| Full Grade: |
NGC XF 40 |
| Owner: |
deposito |
Owner Comments:
From the year of the start of the Second Anglo Burmese War of 1852-1853. You can't appreciate Thailand without some understanding of its neighbors. Burma had been the chronic antagonist of Siamese kingdoms for hundreds of years, culminating in the 1767 sack of Ayuthaya by the Burmese. But with just one more war to go, Burma was about to become another colony of the British Empire. Not even its own colony, but just part of "India."
Thailand's kings can't get all the credit, but, their ability to bend kept the Siamese Kingdom from breaking and succumbing to colonial rule by France, Britain, the Netherlands, or even the U.S.A., as all of its southeast Asian neighbors did.