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Other Thailand Coin, Just Need A Quick Date Translation

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 Posted 02/06/2009  11:28 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add JOE to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This is my other thailand coin, But I can't translate the date, and I can't find any translators online either. Could someone translate the date on it for me please?

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02/12/2009 06:55 am
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 Posted 02/07/2009  12:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DCH to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like BE2457 - 1914
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You'll find a numeral translator at the front of Krause, but the pics for a couple of the numerals look different to how they actually appear on the coins. You can also find them on wikipedia, but they're not very well drawn there, either. Fortunately, their appearance on the coinage is fairly consistent, once you learn to recognise them.

On your coin, the six symbols visible on this side, around the central hole, are (from left to right) two letters (abbreviation for "Buddhasakarat", the Thai word for "Buddhist Era") and the numbers 2 4 5 and 7.

To convert from Buddhist Era dates to AD dates, simply subtract 543. BE 2457 minus 543 equals AD 1914.
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Thanks again sap! I never knew about that numeral translator in the krause catalog, that's going to help out a lot.
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I should also point out that this year (2457) was only the second year the BE calendar was used on Thai coinage; on most earlier coins, the Bangkok Era calendar was used instead. So if you find a coin with only three numerals in the date, it's using the earlier calendar, and dates from before 1913.
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