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5 Satang - Rama IX
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in military uniform, wearing a peaked cap with a single medal visible on the chest. The portrait is rendered in low relief with fine detail on the uniform collar and epaulettes. A Thai-script legend curves along the left rim giving the king's name and regnal designation, with a continuation on the right field. The overall style is a restrained, formal royal portrait typical of mid-twentieth-century Thai coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thailand turned to tin for its minor coinage in 1950 partly by necessity — the country has historically been one of the world's leading tin producers, and using domestic metal for low-denomination coins was a straightforward economic decision in the resource-strapped postwar years. These small tin pieces circulated hard in a country where five satang still bought something, and survivors without corrosion or environmental damage are genuinely difficult to find.