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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 145557, member: 669&quot;]That specific variety (Y#219) has been minted since BE2531 (1988). it&#039;s similar to US clad coinage with a copper core and cu-ni outsides.</p><p><br /></p><p>My 2006 Krause only gives the mintage through 2000.&nbsp; The only value Krause gives is 50 cents for uncirculated examples, regardless of year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rama IX, aka Phra Maha Bhumithol Adulyadej ascended the throne in 1946 and is now one of the longest serving monarchs in the world, and may even be the longest.&nbsp; If he makes it another 4 years he will pass Japanese Emperor Hirohito&#039;s record-setting reign..&nbsp; (His effigies began wearing glasses in the early &#039;70s.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Even with the help of the chart in Krause, I&#039;m very poor at dating Thai coins.&nbsp; Their BE dates are converted to the Gregorian calendar by subtracting 543.</p><p><br /></p><p>That edge is actually round, with a nine-sided polygon border, but in BE2515 (1972) Y#98 was issued with an actual nine-sided edge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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