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1906, Kingdom of Cambodia, Sisowath I. Scarce Silver "Coronation" Medal. VF-

Mint Year: 1906 Medallist: P. Lenoir   References: Lecomte 129. Denomination: Medal - Coronation of Sisowath I. Condition: Pierced (holed), with corrosion scars and dark oxidation spots (environmental damage), scratches/cleaning, otherwise VF! Composition: Silver Diameter: 23mm Weight: 4.7gm

Obverse: Bust of Sisowath I left. Khmer legend around. Reverse: Royal coat-of-arms. French legend around, date (1906) below.   Legend: COURONNEMENT DES M. SISOWATH I ROI DU CAMODGE . 1906 . 

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Sisowath (Khmer: ព្រះបាទស៊ីសុវតិ្ថ; 7 September 1840 – 9 August 1927) was king of Cambodia from 1904 to his death in 1927. He was the son of King Ang Duong and half brother of Prince Si Votha and King Norodom.

Sisowath was given the birth name of "Ang Sar". When he was born, Cambodia was under joint Siamese and Vietnamese rule. The royal family lived in the Siamese zone rather than live under   Vietnam. Like his brother King Norodom, Sisowath was educated in the   Siamese capital of Bangkok. He did not return to his native Cambodia until 1860, when his father and the ruling monarch, Ang Duong, died.

He hastily returned to Oudong,   the royal capital of Cambodia, to prevent his half-brother, Prince Si   Votha from seizing the throne. He succeeded, and his other half-brother,   Norodom, became king. Although Norodom was more compliant, rebellion   broke out in Cambodia, and soon the French,   seeking control of Southeast Asia, forced Norodom to comply with a   French protectorate over Cambodia. The French thus drove out the Thai   and the Vietnamese, and Cambodia became a French protectorate, though it   was quite autonomous.

Sisowath was enraged - and he exiled himself to Saigon in Vietnam in 1864, the other former overlord of Cambodia, in a show of   defiance. The French, who also had control of Saigon, persuaded   Sisowath to remain there under French "protection", as his life was in   danger by the "rebels in Cambodia". In reality, the French used Sisowath   as a tool to threaten Norodom. If Norodom was not following France's   policies of reform, they could threaten Norodom with Sisowath and say   that they would depose Norodom and replace him with Sisowath if he did   not comply.

In 1867, when Cambodia was in open rebellion against French rule,   King Norodom pleaded Sisowath to return to Cambodia to quell the rising.   Sisowath returned from Vietnam to Oudong and helped quell the uprising.   In 1884, when the French took full control over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and also defeated Siam in a war in 1893, Cambodia became an open French colony, and the   capital was moved from Oudong to Phnom Penh. Moving with the royal court   to Phnom Penh, Sisowath gave his full support to the French colonial   regime. Norodom thus was compelled to name Sisowath his future   successor.

In 1904, when Norodom died, Sisowath was crowned as king of Cambodia,   a crown that would have gone to one of Norodom's son, Prince Yukanthor,   if the latter didn't have a fall-out with the French. During his reign,   Sisowath continued Norodom's role in government, where he was well   rewarded by the French for his cooperation: they built him a new palace,   gave him a steam-powered yacht, and supplied him with a complementary   ration of 250 lbs of high-grade opium per year. In 1927, he died in Phnom Penh and took the posthumous name of Preah Karuna Preah Sisowath Preah Reacheanukot. He was succeeded by his son and crown prince, Prince Sisowath Monivong.

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