Tiger-Tongue
Silver Bar Money, with stamped snake symbol, from 17th Century Lan Xang
Kingdom in Today's Laos and Northeastern Thailand.
Length 12 cm. Weight 111.7 gram.
About Lan Xang
In
15th century, Lan Xang was a large unified Kingdom in Southeast Asia.
17th century was its golden age when artistic development especially in
Buddhist Art and trading with neighbor countries reached its height.
At this time, rich in its natural resources, Lan Xang issued a lot
of tiger-tonge-shaped silver bar as a trade medium. Lan Xang mint
officials would stamp symbols like snake, turtle, fish, flower, etc., in
order to identify the mint. In 18th century, the kingdom was on
the decline, spiting into 3 regional kingdoms: Luang Phrabang,
Vientiane, and Champasak, of which later became vassal states of Siam
(Today's Thailand) where they added chakra and wheel as symbol and also
adopted the use of Siam's silver bullet coins (Pod Duang). In 19th
century, the regional kingdoms then became French Protectorate of Laos, a
colony as part of the French Indochina, and used flat western coins.
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