Thai coins

Speaking about money, everyone likes money especially Thai girls, isn't it? 

The money we have in our pockets, spend it every single day but how many people ever notice if there are something similar and dissimilar between the different valued coins.

As you can see from above pictures, there are the pictures showing both sides of Thai coins in different values. If you look at them superficially, there might be only the colours and sizes made the coins look clearly different and easy to regconize their values. The first picture is shown that all coins have the similar king image stamped on this side. The second picture shown other side of the coins which has the pagodas (Chedi) and hall images stamped on. Now look at them carefully.

Here we go! The Chedi and hall images stamped on the coins are located in very famous and important temples in Thailand as following;

25 Satang - The Chedi of Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakorn Si Thammarat

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5752/

50 Satang - The Chedi of Wat Pra That Doi Suthep, Chiangmai http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_That_Doi_Suthep

1 Baht - The Chedi of Wat Pra Keaw, Bangkok

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_Kaew

2 Baht - The Chedi of Wat Saket, Bangkok

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Saket

5 Baht - The hall of Wat Benchamabophit, Bangkok

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Saket

10 Baht - The Chedi of Wat Arun, Bangkok

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Arun

Thai coins are one of many things that connect us to the history. Now we are in the reign of The King Bhumibol so the coins stamped with the king image. The coins in other reigns are different from the present coins too. If you are in Chiangmai and interested in learning more about Thai coins you can visit the Treasury Pavilion, it is located on Ratchadamnoern Rd. (Sunday market Rd.) near Tamarin Village Hotel.  I went to the Treasury Pavilion often  when my piggy banks fulled with coins. They ever serviced people to exchange coins and banknotes but now the exchange service has been moved to Chiangmai City Hall already.

Even some Thai people don't notice them and cannot identify the name of temples on coins. People might think it is just a little thing, no need to pay attention but we need to accept that sometimes little things can change the world. :D 

Sorry for updating the blog late though, I promised my friend that I would update it on weekend but it's about 2 weeks late now. 

            ***** To be continued *****