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The Ancient Coinage of Mainland Southeast Asia

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Robert S. Wicks
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Southeast Asia's coinage during the first millenium AD is remarkably conservative and uniform. A single prototype, a silver conch and śrīvatsa coin, is the model for each mainland coinage issued over a period of more than five hundred years, from about AD 450 to 1000. (Plate 1, coin 1) Silver is by far the preferred metal for minting. Gold and copper are rarely used, and then only in late or debased issues. Most of the cointypes are limited in circulation to their place of issue, providing insight into the geographical extent of effective political control in the early states of Candra Arakan, Pyu Śrīkṣetra and Mon Dvāravatī. Weight standards are extremely variable indicating that each state had a localized currency and not one immediately acceptable on an international basis. The main exception is the Rising Sun/Śrīvatsa coinage found in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. Unfortunately this Rising Sun coinage cannot be attributed to any mainland state with certainty.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1985 , pp. 195 - 225
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Research for this study was made possible by support from the American Numismatic Society, the Kress Foundation, and from Cornell University. The author's doctoral dissertation, “A Survey of Native Southeast Asian Coinage circa 450–1850: Documentation and Typology” (Cornell University, May 1983) provides a comprehensive overview of Southeast Asian numismatic developments. This paper is a revised version of chapter two of that work.

The author would like to thank Mr. Joe Cribb of the British Museum, London, Dr. Michael Bates of the American Numismatic Society, New York, Dr. Michael Mitchiner, Mr. Lewis A. Shaw, Dr. Pamela Gutman and Dr. Craig Burns for kindly providing the coin photographs which accompany this article. The author is also grateful for their comments, criticisms and suggestions while this work was in progress.

Following numismatic practice, coin citations are generally presented in a shortened form, such as Mitchiner (1982), no. 3414. A work is cited in full at its first appearance. In instances where a single specimen is referred to by more than one source, an equal sign (=) joins the references. When different specimens of the same type are referred to, citations are separated by a semicolon (;).

1 Surveys of mainland coinage during the first millenium include, M. Mitchiner [hereafter Mitchiner (1972)], “Some Arakan and Pyu-Mon Coins”, Journal of the Numismatic Society of India [hereafter JNSI 34 (1972): 47–59Google Scholar and “The Date of the Early Arakanese, Pyu and Mon Coinages (‘Symbolic Coins’)”, Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin [hereafter SCMB] (May, 1981): 128–32.Google Scholar Often impressionistic, Mitchiner's pronouncements are to be approached with caution. Gutman, P., “The Ancient Coinage of Southeast Asia”, Journal of the Siam Society [hereafter JSS] 66, pt. 1 (1978): 8–21Google Scholar, views early Southeast Asian coinage as a means of extending kingly authority. It is a rewritten version of chapter three of her doctoral dissertation, “Ancient Arakan” (Australian National University, 1976), pp. 131–57Google Scholar [hereafter Gutman (1976)]. Her most valuable contribution is an examination of the symbols appearing on these early coins. J. Cribb has critiqued Mitchiner and Gutman in “The Date of the Symbolical Coins of Burma and Thailand — A reexamination of the evidence”, ms. 1981. A revised and abbreviated version was published in SCMB (August, 1981): 224–26.Google Scholar

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11 The Oc Eo coins are published in L. Mitchiner, ADM III (1962), no. 948, Plate XLIV and no. 949, Plate XLIV.Google Scholar Specimens from Pegu are in Phayre (1882), Plate V, 6 and V, 7; see also Robinson, Michael and Shaw, Lewis A., The Coins and Banknotes of Burma (privately printed for the authors, 1980), p. 13, fig. 3.10. [Hereafter Robinson and Shaw (1980).]Google Scholar Other coins of uncertain provenance are illustrated in Banerji, R. D., “Unrecorded Kings of Arakan”, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16, no. 3, Numismatic Supplement 33 (1920)Google Scholar: Plate XIII, 7 [hereafter Banerji (1920)]; and Mitchiner, Michael, Oriental Coins and Their Values: The Ancient and Classical World 600 B. C.-A. D. 650 (London: Hawkins Publications, 1978), p. 653, no. 5207 [hereafter Mitchiner II (1978)]Google Scholar; and Mitchiner, Michael, Oriental Coins and Their Values: Non-Islamic States and Western Colonies (London: Hawkins Publications, 1979) [hereafter Mitchiner III (1979)], p. 318, no. 2580.Google Scholar

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14 The only published photograph of these pieces is in Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 10, fig. 3.3. The information on provenance is from recent publications on Burmese archaeology kindly provided by Professor M. Aung-Thwin, personal communication, 30 April 1982.

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19 “Wheatley, The Golden Khersonese, p. 56.

20 Wheatley, The Golden Khersonese, p. 56, note 1. Mathews, under ‘chu’ no. 1354, p. 191 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Revised ed., 1969).Google Scholar

21 Gutman, “The Ancient Coinage of Southeast Asia”, p. 9.

22 Lien-sheng, Yang, Money and Credit in China: A Short History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs, 12, 2nd edition, 1971), pp. 21–23.Google Scholar

23 Wheatley, The Golden Khersonese, p. 217 translates the relevant text. A more recent version (and the one used here) is found in Tibbetts, G. R., A Study of the Arabic Texts Containing Material on South-East Asia (E. J. Brill: Leiden and London, 1979).Google Scholar

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When these [ancient Arakan] inscriptions are compared with the few which have been published from Burma proper, the curious point arises that the scripts used in Arakan, unlike those in Burma, all find close analogies with those current in North Eastern India … the parallelism is so exact that we need hardly assume any substantial “time-lag” for the introduction of changes; that assumption would in the circumstances make it necessary to postulate a time-lag of similar length in all cases throughout a period of five centuries.

(From “Some Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan”, p. 360.)

30 Gutman (1976), pp. 120–26.Google Scholar

31 See Phayre (1882), Plate II, 11 and p. 29; a smaller coin is published in Wicks (1980), Plate XIV, 1 and Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 18, fig. 3.18.Google Scholar

32 Phayre (1882), Plate II, 10. A similar coin, but with faint traces of an inscription is recorded in Gutman (1976), Plate XXXVII, 2.Google Scholar

33 Phayre (1882), Plate II, 7; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 651, no. 5185; Gutman (1976), Plate XXXVIII, 2.Google Scholar

34 Gutman (1976).

35 Gutman (1976).

36 D. C. Sircar, “No. 11. Inscriptions of the Chandras of Arakan”, p. 109.

37 D. C. Sircar, “No. 13. Fragmentary Copper Plate Grant from Arakan”, p. 63.

38 Two sizes of standard Harikela coins are mentioned by Khan, F. A., Mainamati, A Preliminary Report… (Pakistan: Department of Archaeology, 1963).Google Scholar The small bracteates seen by the author were at one time in the possession of Scott Semans.

39 Gutman (1976), Plate XL, 13 and p. 172.

40 Gutman(1976), p. 172.

41 Phayre (1882), Plate II,3; Gutman (1976), Plate XL, 15 and p. 174; Latter, Thomas, “The Coins of Arakan — the symbolical coins”, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 15 (1846): 238–40 [hereafter Latter (1846)]Google Scholar; Capt. Fryer, G. E., “Notes on an Arakanese Coin”, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 41, no. 1 (1872): 202, fig. C (hereafter Fryer (1872)].Google Scholar

42 Latter (1846), Plate III, 3; Phayre (1882), Plate II, 1.

43 Gutman (1976), p. 175. A full-unit coin is illustrated in Gutman (1976), Plate XLI, 2. She also mentions, but does not illustrate, a half-unit coin.

44 Gutman (1976), p. 176. The coin is illustrated in Gutman (1976), Plate XLI, 3 and 4.

45 Banerji, R. D., “Unrecorded Kings of Arakan”, p. 85, Plate 13. See also Wicks (1980), Plate XIV, 3 and 4.Google Scholar

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47 Gutman (1976), p. 181.

48 See Rashid, M. Harunur, “The Early History of Southeast Bengal in the Light of Recent Archaeological Material” (Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge, 1968). P. Gutman, “Ancient Arakan”, pp. 126–30 and 177–81; and R. Wicks, “Bull/Trisula Coin Issues”, pp. 109–31.Google Scholar

49 The best discussions are, Mukherjee, B. N., “The Original Territory of Harikela”, Bangladesh Lalit Kola 1, pt. 2 (July, 1975): 115–20.Google ScholarRashid, M. Harunur, “The Origin and Early Kingdom of the Chandras of Rohiatgiri”, Bangladesh Historical Studies 2 (1971): 9–30Google Scholar and Chowdhury, A. M., Dynastic History of Bengal (Dacca, 1967), pp. 150–53.Google Scholar

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52 See M. Harunur Rashid, “The Origin and Early Kingdom of the Chandras of Rohiatgiri”, pp. 9–30.

53 For some examples of early Harikela coins, see Phayre (1882), Plate II, 12; Smith, Vincent A., Catalogue of the coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Vol. I, 1906), Plate XXXI, 10; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 659, nos. 5259, 5260 and 5261Google Scholar; Wicks (1980), Plate XIV, 5. The Sylhet hoard is published by MacDowall, D. W., “Eight Coins of Arakan from Sylhet”, Numismatic Chronicle (London) 6th series 20 (1960): 229–34.Google Scholar This consists of later coins. Transitional coins, of a lower weight standard, are published in Wicks (1980), Plate XIV, 6 and 7; Mitchiner III (1979).

54 Dani, A. H., “Coins of the Chandra Kings of East Bengal”, JNSI 24 (1962): 141–2Google Scholar, interpreted the finds at Mainamati to be of the tenth century. Subsequent studies, primarily those of M. Harunur Rashid, show that Dani based his chronology on inaccurate information from the Department of Archaeology. (See Rashid, M. Harunur, “The Mainamati Gold Coins”, Bangladesh Lalit Kala 1, pt. 1 (1975):45Google Scholar, particularly footnote 49.] Dani now accepts the eighth century dating and Harikela reading for these coins. See M. Harunur Rashid, “The Origin and Early Kingdom of the Chandras of Rohiatgiri”, p. 18. A useful summary of the numismatic evidence can be found in Khan, F. A., Mainamati, A Preliminary Report… (Pakistan: Department of Archaeology, 1963).Google Scholar

55 These are dealt with in R. Wicks, “Bull/Trisula Coin Issues”, pp. 124–27. Mukherjee, B. N., “A note on a few series of Silver coins”, JNSI 39, pts. 1–2 (1977): 135–38Google Scholar and “Harikela and Related Coinages”, Journal of Ancient Indian History [hereafter JAIH] 10 (1976/1977): 166–71.Google Scholar Other publications of the bracteates include Mitchiner II (1978), p. 659, no. 5262; p. 660, nos. 5263–66; p. 661, nos. 5267–70; Malloy, A. G., “New Discovery of the Candra Kingdom of East Bengal”, Medieval Coins XV (fpl) 1978, pp. 2, 9–10Google Scholar, Plates III and IV; Mitchiner, M. B., “A Group of Broad Repoussee Silver Coins Struck by the Candra Kings of East Bengal Circa AD 1000”, Spink's Numismatic Circular [hereafter SNC] 86, no. 1 (January, 1978): 8–9Google Scholar; Mukherjee, “Harikela and Related Coinages”, pp. 166–71; and Chowdhury, V. and Ray, P., “Broad Repoussee Silver Coins Struck by the Candra Kings of East Bengal, a Response”, SNC (1978), pp. 186–87.Google Scholar

56 Mukherjee, “Harikela and Related Coinages”, pp. 166–71, lists a number of variant readings: Veraka, Viraka, Piraka, Varita, Sivagiri and Jayagiri. The present writer questions the validity of these interpretations. See R. Wicks, “Bull/Trisula Coin Issues”, p. 125, note 33.

57 This division is noted by Mukherjee, “Harikela and Related Coinages”, p. 170.

58 Mukherjee, “Harikela and Related Coinages”, p. 167.

59 The most useful study of the Pyu remains Luce, G. H., “The Ancient Pyu”, JBRS 27, pt. 3 (1937): 239–53Google Scholar; Burma Research Society Fiftieth Anniversary Publications no. 2 (Rangoon, 1960), pp. 307–316 [hereafter Reprint edition].Google Scholar

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61 See Aung, Myint, “The Excavations at Halin”, JBRS 53, pt. 3 (1970): 55–64.Google Scholar

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64 On Mongmao see Tun, U Than, “A Forgotten Town of Burma”, Shiroku 12 (1979): 51–56Google Scholar and Sein Maung U, “Mongmao: A Forgotten City”, The Working People's Daily, Wednesday, 21 January 1981, pp. 5, 8Google Scholar; for Kyaikkatha see Aung, U Myint, “The Capital of Suvannabhumi unearthed?”, Shiroku 10 (1977): 41–54.Google Scholar Archaeological explorations throughout Burma promise to completely revise our understanding of Burmese protohistory.

65 Translation by Waley, A.. From Harvey, G. E., History of Burma (London, 1925), p. 14.Google Scholar

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68 The following quotation is taken from Luce, “The Ancient Pyu” (Reprint edition), p. 91. Original edition, p. 319. The passage can also be found in G. E. Harvey, History of Burma, p. 13 and elsewhere.

69 Yule, H. and Burnell, A. C., Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (Delhi: Munshiram Manoharial, 2nd edition, 1968), p. 896.Google Scholar See also Gutman, “The Ancient Coinage of Southeast Asia”, p. 9.

70 LeMay, R., The Coinage of Siam (Bangkok: The Siam Society, 1932), pp. 19–20 [hereafter LeMay (1932)].Google Scholar

71 Gutman, “The Ancient Coinage of Southeast Asia”, p. 9.

72 Luce and Oey, The Man Shu, p. 91.

73 Scattered publications of Class A coins include, Robinson, M. and Domrow, R., “Some New Pyu Coins and Modern Fantasies”, Oriental Numismatic Society [hereafter ONS] Newsletter no. 78 (June, 1982): 2–3Google Scholar, no. 3; Mitchiner, M. B., “Early Burmese Coinage and King Bodawpaya's Restrikes”, ONS Newsletter no. 68 (October, 1980): 1–4, nos. 4–6Google Scholar; Cappon, “Trouvaille de Monnaies en Cochinchine”, Revue Numismatique 3rd series, 4 (1886): 295–97Google Scholar; Mitchiner III (1979), no. 2628; Mitchiner (1972), Plate III, 9.

74 Duroiselle, C., “Excavations at Hmawza”, Archaeological Survey of India, Annual 1926–27, Plate XLII, f[hereafter Duroiselle (1930)].Google Scholar

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76 U. Than Thun, “A Forgotten Town of Burma”, p. 54.

77 Full-unit coins with an angular bhaddapitha can be found in Mitchiner (1972), Plate III, 10; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 656, no. 5242; Latter (1844), p. 571 = Phayre (1882), Plate V, 1 = Guehler, Ulrich, “Essay on the symbols and marks of old Siamese coins”, JSS 37, no. 2 (1949): 124–43, Plate II, 2.Google Scholar Full-unit coins with a curved bhaddapitha can be found in Duroiselle (1930), Plate XLII, f = Malleret ADM III (1962), Plate XLVI, 3; Duroiselle (1930), Plate XLII, f = Malleret ADM III (1962), Plate XLVI, 2 = Thaw, U Aung, Historical Sites in Burma (Rangoon: The Ministry of Union Culture, 1972), p. 9Google Scholar; Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 9, fig. 3.1. For one-quarter unit coins with an angular bhaddapitha, see Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 9, fig. 3.2; U Aung Thaw (1968), Plate LVIII; for the angular bhaddapitha, Mitchiner II (1978), p. 656, no. 5243–45; Mitchiner (1972), Plate II, 11; Duroiselle (1930), Plate XLII, e = Malleret vol. III (1962), Plate XLVI, 4; Thiele (1972), coin 12; Mitchiner (1980), p. 2, figs. 2 and 3.

78 See Robinson and Domrow, “Some New Pyu Coins and Modern Fantasies”, pp. 2–3, nos. 1–2; Mitchiner, M. B., “Some New Pyu Coins”, ONS Newsletter no. 78 (June, 1982): 4.Google Scholar

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85 The first to do so is Yamamoto, “East Asian Historical Sources for Dvāravatī Studies” (ms. 1977), pp. 2–5.Google Scholar Gutman, “The Ancient Coinage of Southeast Asia”, p. 9, accepts this identification.

86 As quoted in G. H. Luce, “Countries Neighboring Burma”, JBRS Reprint, pp. 280–81.

87 See Luce, “Countries Neighboring Burma”, p. 281, note 4.

88 Xin Tang Shu as recorded in the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (726 edition), 218.8.102.218:1.

89 Du You, Tungdian (Taipei, 1962), p. 1010.Google Scholar

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91 Gujin Tushu Jicheng (1726 edition), 20.269.552:29.

92 Schjoth, F., Chinese Currency (Hancock edition, 1965), p. 7.Google Scholar See coin numbers 86–87 on plate 13. Schjoth mistranslates the term as ‘elm-leaf’. Weights and diameters of coins are taken from Schjoth, p. 84. This work was originally published as The Currency of the Far East: The Schjoth Collection at the Numismatic Cabinet of the University of Oslo, Norway (London and Oslo, 1929).Google Scholar

93 See Guehler, Ulrich, “Further studies of old Thai coins”, JSS 35, no. 2 (1944)Google Scholar, Plate X,3; Guehler (1949), Plate 1,3 and 5; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 653, nos. 5210 and 5211; KT(1966a), fifth plate, bottom.

94 Boeles, “The King of Śrī Dvāravatī and his Regalia”, p. 101.

95 Boisselier, Jean, “Recentes Recherches Archeologiques en Thailande”, Arts Asiatiques 12 (1965): 125–74, fig. 26CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 653, no. 5210; KT(1966a), fourth plate, first, third and fourth row.

96 Coins in Thailand (Bangkok: Fine Arts Department, 1973) [hereafter CIT(1973)], fig. 8, top left and right; KT(1966a), fourth plate, third row (two specimens).Google Scholar

97 For large module coins, see Mitchiner II (1978), p. 654, nos. 5213–20; KT(1966a), fifth plate, top row. For the smaller coins, Mitchiner II (1978), p. 655, nos. 5221–28; CIT(1973), fig. 8; KT(1966a), fifth plate, second row.Google Scholar

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99 Boisselier, J., “Travaux de la Mission Archeologique Francaise en Thailande”, Arts Asiatiques 25 (1972), fig. 3, p. 29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also Guide to the U Tong National Museum (Bangkok: Fine Arts Department, 1966).Google Scholar

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101 CIT (1973), figs. 11–12.

102 See CIT(1973), figs. 15–16.

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106 For example, a silver coin with the design of a deer on the obverse and a floral star or rosette on the reverse has been associated, wrongly, with Dvāravatī. See Oliver, T., Twenty Centuries of Coins, Thailand's Currency Through the Ages (Bangkok: Published by the author, 1978), p. 12.Google Scholar He calls the coin a sixth century ‘link’ between Funan and Dvāravatī. The piece has clear Ayudhyan affinities, however. Another specimen is illustrated in Kneedler, W. Harding, “The Coins of North Siam”, JSS 29, no. 1 (Aug., 1936)Google Scholar, Plate XI, 2. The ANS possesses a cast specimen.

107 Mitchiner II (1978), no. 5208; Mitchiner II (1979), nos. 2581–85; Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 14, fig. 3.12.

108 Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 11, fig. 3.6.

109 Mya, U, “Some hitherto unknown Burmese coins”, ASI, AR (1930–1934), pt. 2, pp. 331–35.Google Scholar

110 Malleret, ADM III (1962), pp. 131ff.

111 Boisselier, “Recentes Recherches Archeologiques en Thailande”, p. 144.

112 U Aung Thaw, Report on the Excavations at Beikthano, p. 64.

113 Mitchiner III (1979), p. 316, no. 2567x.

114 Publication of large Class A specimens include, Smith (1906), Plate XXXI, 16; Temple (1928), Plate III, 5; Mitchiner (1972), Plate III, 7 and 8; Boisselier (1965), fig. 27; Theile (1972), coin 1; CIT (1973), fig. 1; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 657, nos. 5246–52; Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 11, fig. 3.7. A quarter-unit Class A coin is published in KT (1966a), second plate, third row. A sandstone ‘seal’ from the military camp at Lopburi inscribed with the reverse śrīvatsa is also known. See Boisselier, Jean, “Recherches Archeologiques en Thailande”, Arts Asiatiques 20 (1969): 53, fig. 11.Google Scholar

115 One unit Class B coins are published in Malleret, ADM III (1962), Plate XLIV, no. 950; U Aung Thaw (1968), Plate LVIII, a; Mitchiner (1972), Plate III, 6; CIT(1973), fig. 1. Smaller one-quarter unit coins are illustrated by, Fea (1896), fig. 173, c-d; U Aung Thaw (1968), Plate LVIII, a; Thiele (1972), coin 3; Mitchiner II (1978). p. 657, nos. 5253–56, 5258. A one-eighth or one-tenth denomination coin is also reported.

116 Malleret, ADM III, p. 137.

117 Malleret, ADM III, pp. 137–38, no. 951.

118 A letter from Coedès was published in Guehler, “Essay on the Symbols and Marks of Old Siamese Coins”, p. 142a.

119 Fea (1896), fig. 173, a-b.

120 Guehler (1944), Plate X, 2; Mitchiner II (1978), p. 658, no. 5257; Mitchiner (1980), p. 4, fig. 12; Robinson and Shaw (1980), p. 12, fig. 3.9.

121 Cappon, “Trouvaille de Monnaies en Cochinchine”, pp. 295–97.

122 M. Mitchiner, personal communication and Gutman, “The Ancient Coinage of Southeast Asia”, pp. 8–21.