Thailand BE2457 10 satang

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Steve Album sale 55, lot 1378

This specimen was lot 1378 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $1,440. The catalog description[1] noted, "THAILAND: Rama VI, 1910-1925, 10 satang, BE2457 (1914), fantastic luster with superb surfaces, a lovely example! NGC graded MS66, ex The 1914 Collection. Finest graded at NGC and PCGS." After Thailand converted to decimal coinage, one hundred satang made a baht. One, five, ten satang and one baht were struck at Brussels in BE 2457. The date is shown as "๒๔๕๗" above the hole on the reverse. This type was struck RS 127-131 and BE 2456-2480.

Recorded mintage: 1,000,000.

Specifications: 3.5 g, nickel, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM Y37.

Sources:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.

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