P16b - 1 Baht, Type II Issue Date: 08 May 1932 Serial Number: G/82 86235 Front: Garuda at upper left corner, Erawan at lower right corner Back: Royal Ploughing Procession at center Signature: 12 Size: 135 x 75 mm
I hope some of you enjoy the information I collected – My wife is Thai. Thus, my special interest in Thai culture and currency! If there is interest, I would love to post more. It has taken me many years to aggregate this information.
We went to Bangkok & Pattaya last year (& really enjoyed ourselves). Naturally, I had to get some banknotes so I would really to see what you have. Share all you like @clayirving (Nice P-16b)! I won this 1948 5 Baht (P-70b) before our trip:
My wife is Thai also OP. I haven't gotten into the currency very much, (I think I own a few Rama VII, VIII, and IX notes). To be fair, I am mainly an ancient collector so I have all Thai kingdoms of coinage, missing only a couple of major types of all pre-Rama V round coins, (not counting things like gold pot duang, etc.). Edit: Btw I am actually going there in 2 weeks. Anyone have a recommendation for a good coin dealer, (preferably early), in Bangkok? I have a couple of days to kill there with my wife.
Yes there's definite interest in notes and coins! I even have a few amulets, and food, I love Thai food!
I stumbled upon a coin shop at a knock-off outlet mall in Pattaya. His prices were clearly directed at newbies/tourists I guess: they were 5 to 10X what I would pay on eBay (World notes). Older Thai notes were damaged VG to F, over graded/ overpriced IMO but I have also experienced this in Europe (Salzburg, Austria & Leipzig, Germany). I just find LCS overpriced.
I love those color combos! I've always enjoyed Thai script on coins. I know essentially nothing about the coins and currency though. On a side, a really sweet Thai couple recently opened a restaurant about half an hour away and the food is phenomenal. The husband does most of the cooking while she runs the front of the restaurant. I've told her multiple times she should charge more for the food, it's that good.
Yes, please post more. Spouse also Thai. I have some more recent commemoratives that everybody there seems to have, but would enjoy seeing the older stuff. I'm also interested in any LCS recommendation for Bangkok or elsewhere. Last time I was there I couldn't find anything. There used to be street sellers outside Wat Po because the national coin museum was in Grand Palace, but those seems to be gone now. This is in my late mother-in-law's safety deposit box in Bangkok. Her husband was in banking and must have stashed them away when they stopped making the 1 baht note in favor of the coin.
Really nice 36' Baht with the young prince @clayirving! Impressive stash @KBBPLL I bought a set of UNC 1950 Thai notes from noteshobby on eBay for about $35USD: (P-74d to P-77d) @keemao also has some tough/scarce examples posted here & here for PMG certification.
There's an uncut sheet of 1 5 10 baht in there too, some sort of collector thing they sold I assume. Also a stack of 10 baht and a ton of other stuff, mostly Buddha amulets. Grandma's treasure.
That looks like P-177 Commemorative 16 Baht note (King's IX life & marking his 80th birthday shown on the reverse) from 2007. Check the back! Thailand (& the Philippines) have issued a lot of commemorative notes.
Yeah, lots of commemorative notes, even odd denominations and sizes. Like I said, I do not collect notes really, (only notes in my main collection are US colonial notes, especially Franklin pieces), I have a couple of odd Thai commemoratives. They made I believe a 80 baht really large sized in the 1980's.
That's the one! My wife only took a pic of the front and it all went back into the safety deposit box where it still remains. We didn't get a chance to go back last time we were in Bangkok. From the image in the link it looks like the reverse could be cut into the three notes, but in the small depiction of a sitting pose the king's head would be chopped off on the 5 baht. That would be a big no-no, so I don't think these sheets were intended to ever be cut. I have the commemorative 60 baht but everybody has them. There are at least 6 in the bank box. It's a nice design though.
I have a bunch of the commemorative coins myself, and there are many more in the bank box. Fun to have but not much collector value. However there's a set of three gold denominations worth quite a bit.
Yeah, modern gold commems are pretty low mintage and expensive. I only own the 3 coin Queen's 36th birthday set and the International year of the Child in gold, (though to be fair modern Thai gold is not at all an interest).
