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BOOK REVIEW
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."- 2003-02-16
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