Thailand BE2467 1/4 baht

Stephen Album sale 37, lot 1770

This specimen was lot 1770 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $166.60. The catalog description^[1] noted, "THAILAND: Rama VI, 1910-1925, AR ¼ baht (salung), BE2467 (1924), PCGS graded MS65." This type was struck 1917-19, 1924-25. It accompanied a half baht and a single baht. A few years later, the currency was decimalized with 100 satang = one baht and this denomination became a 25 satang.

Recorded mintage: 2,100,000.

Specification: 3.75 g, 0.650 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM Y43a.

Source:

• 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Link to:

• BE2459 (1916) baht
• BE2462 (1919) salung
• BE2463 (1920) ½ baht
• BE2468 (1925) salung
• BE2472 (1929) 25 satang
• Coins and currency dated 1924