100 Baht - Rama IX Wildlife Conservation

Issued as part of Thailand's participation in the CITES-linked conservation coin programs that proliferated across Southeast Asia in the mid-1990s, this piece was produced during a period when the Royal Thai Mint was aggressively expanding its commemorative output — often in coordination with international wildlife bodies pushing member states to fund enforcement through collector coinage. Mintages for this series were kept deliberately low to sustain secondary market demand, a policy that sometimes left the conservation programs themselves underfunded relative to the promotional apparatus surrounding them.