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5 Satang - Rama V Siam Anachak
| Issuer | Thailand |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Reverse description | The Thai numeral '๕' (five) appears prominently in the centre of the coin, enclosed within a wreath of laurel or floral branches tied at the base with a ribbon, all in raised relief. A Thai-script legend 'ห้าสตางค์' (Five Satang) arcs across the upper field above the central numeral. The overall composition is clean and symmetrical, consistent with the minting standards of the Heaton Mint, Birmingham. |
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| Reverse lettering | ห้าสตางค์ ๕ (Translation: Five Satang 5) |
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Rama V — Chulalongkorn — introduced Western-style decimal coinage in the 1880s and 1890s as part of a sweeping modernization program explicitly designed to present Siam as a sovereign peer to European colonial powers. The satang denominations in copper-nickel were central to that project, replacing the older bullet coin system that had served the kingdom for centuries. The timing was not incidental: French pressure on Siamese territory in Indochina culminated in the crisis of 1893, and monetary reform was one of several administrative moves meant to demonstrate institutional legitimacy to a skeptical European audience.