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10 Satang - Rama VIII Posthumous
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) facing left, depicted in military uniform with decorations visible at the chest. The portrait is rendered in fine relief with detailed hair and facial features in a youthful likeness. A beaded border frames the entire design. The Thai legend is divided into two vertical columns flanking the portrait, one to each side of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Thai |
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Rama VIII — King Ananda Mahidol — died on June 9, 1946, from a single gunshot wound under circumstances that remain officially unresolved. Three palace attendants were eventually executed for the crime, but the case has never been fully accepted as closed. This coin was issued posthumously in his name during the months of political chaos that followed his death, before his younger brother Bhumibol ascended as Rama IX.
Tin was used here as a wartime and postwar expedient, a material Thailand turned to repeatedly during the 1940s when base metal supplies were disrupted.