TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, large tin coin, cast (48.53g), Robinson-, Phayre-Plate III.3 (obverse only), 69mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, ornate flowers behind the tail, and holding a ornately cut 9-leaf branch in its beak // Burmese ta-weh (for the city of Dawei in Tenasserim Province), couple minor chips on the obverse & reverse., VF, RRR. The reverse was published and the legend read by Elizabeth Moore, "Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland", in Myanmar Historical Research Journal, vol. 21 (June 2011).
