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2 Baht - Rama IX Thai National Assembly
| Issuer | Royal Thai Mint |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | รัชกาลที่ ๗ รัชกาลที่ ๙ |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the inauguration of Thailand's new National Assembly building in 1992, this commemorative coincided with one of the most turbulent years in modern Thai political history. Just months after the building opened, the military government of Suchinda Kraprayoon faced mass pro-democracy protests in Bangkok — the "Black May" uprising — which ended only after King Bhumibol personally intervened, summoning both Suchinda and protest leader Chamlong Srimuang to kneel before him in a televised audience that effectively ended the crisis.
The coin was struck before those events unfolded, making it an inadvertent artifact of a constitutional order that was about to be violently contested.