1 Solot / 1⁄16 Fueang / 1/2 Att - Rama V

These bronzes were struck as Siam modernized its currency system under Chulalongkorn, who had witnessed firsthand during his 1897 European tour how industrialized minting operations functioned. The Royal Thai Mint had been established with British technical assistance, and early production runs showed inconsistent planchet quality — a known issue with the type that collectors still encounter across the date range.

The denomination itself reflects the transitional arithmetic of the period: the old cowrie-based system mapped awkwardly onto decimal ambitions, producing fractional designations that straddled two monetary logics simultaneously.