5 Satang - Rama IX Golden Jubilee

Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bhumibol Adulyadej's accession in 1996, this aluminium piece occupies an awkward position in the series — a denomination so negligible by that point that it had essentially no purchasing power in daily commerce. The Golden Jubilee made Bhumibol the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history at the time, and the commemorative coinage spanned multiple denominations and metals, of which this is the most modest by every measure.