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2 Salung - Rama VI
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Silver (.800) |
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| Obverse lettering | มหาวชิราวุธ สยามินทร์ |
| Reverse description | A full-bodied frontal elephant, wearing a traditional Thai crown and regalia, dominates the central field, flanked on either side by the heads and trunks of two additional elephants, forming the emblematic three-headed elephant motif (Erawan) of Siam. Thai legends are arranged around the periphery, reading the kingdom name, Buddhist Era date, and denomination. The design is enclosed by a beaded border. |
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Rama VI came to the throne in 1910 with a strongly Western-oriented education — he had studied at Sandhurst and Oxford — and his reign saw Thailand's coinage modernized along European lines, moving away from the bullet-coin traditions that had persisted into the late 19th century. The 1915 date places this piece in the early years of his reign, just before Thailand entered World War I on the Allied side in 1917, a calculated diplomatic move designed to secure a seat at the postwar peace table and renegotiate the unequal treaties that had constrained Thai sovereignty since the 1850s.