Thailand RS116-H 5 satang
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This specimen was lot 1764 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $261.80. The catalog description[1] noted, "THAILAND: Rama V, 1868-1910, 5 satang, RS116 (1897), struck at the Heaton mint, Birmingham, PCGS graded MS64." This product of the Heaton mint was one of a series which included a 2½ satang (Y24), a five satang (shown here), a ten satang (Y26) and a twenty satang (Y27), all in copper-nickel. None are rare. One baht = four salung = 100 satang.
Recorded mintage: 5,080,000 + proofs.
Specification: copper-nickel.
Catalog reference: KM Y25.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th 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.
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