5 Satang - Rama IX

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.