Cambodia CS 1208 tical KM-36
This specimen was lot 1330 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $2,880. The catalog description[1] noted, "CAMBODIA: Ang Duong, 1840-1860, AR tical, CS1208 (1847), small and thick type, hamza bird, native sun chopmark on reverse, minor natural edge defect, lightly cleaned, XF, ex Hans Mondorf Collection. Struck at the Udong Mint with dies prepared at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham ca. 1856." Another variety (KM 37) is noted with a thin flan and weighed 14.21 g. Quarter and eighth ticals were also struck along with smaller denominations in billon. Cambodia was colonized by the French in the 1860's and incorporated into French Indochina in the 1880's, thwarting the development of Cambodian coinage.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 15.25 g, silver, 30 mm diameter, this specimen 14.49 g.
Catalog reference: KM-36, Daniel-79.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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