The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 7, February 16, 2003, Article 9

BOOK REVIEW: CENTENARY OF THAI BANKNOTE

  Howard A. Daniel III submitted the following book review:

  "Centenary of Thai Banknote: 1902-2002" by a Working
  Group (under the direction of Bank of Thailand Governor,
  M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula), Bank of Thailand, Bangkok,
  Thailand, Oversized Hardbound, 448 pages,
  ISBN-974-7341-50-6.

  One of the editorial consultants working on this excellent
  reference was Ron Cristal of Bangkok International
  Associates (http://www.bia.co.th) in Bangkok, and he
  recently sent a copy to me.

  It starts with describing the "bullet" coins, other coins, cowrie
  shells, porcelain gaming tokens during the time of King
  Mongkut (Rama IV), who came to the throne in 1868.  The
  King decided current Thai coins were not sufficient for
  Thailand to merge into the world's economies and he started
  a modernization process.

  King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) succeeded him and foreign
  banks started issuing their own notes to satisfy the demands
  of large transactions.  King Chulalongkorn decided that
  Thailand needed its own banknotes and the first were issued
  in 1902.

  This reference describes all of the Thai banknotes issued
  from 1902 to 2002 with much of the detail information never
  before seen in English or in published form.  I believe the
  details about the World War II issues has the largest amount
  of new information about the production, shipping, and issuing
  of these banknotes.  And it includes the postwar U.S.-printed
  banknotes.

  If you have any general questions about this reference, please
  contact me at Howard@SEAsianTreasury.com, or Ron at
  bia@cscoms.com, if you want to know more details about it.
  Scott Semans (SSemans@aol.com) is the only U.S. dealer,
  with this book on his website at http://www.coincoin.com.
  If there is any interest in it, he will ask the publisher for
  quantity pricing."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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