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Historical · Thailand
1917 Rama VI Thai baht
Rama VI’s uniformed portrait faces a three-headed elephant. A warm-toned Thai baht with a distinctive elephant reverse.
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The story behind the coin
The paired source photograph identifies this as a 1917 one-baht coin of Rama VI. The portrait side shows the king in uniform, surrounded by Thai lettering. On the reverse, a three-headed elephant stands beneath an ornamental upper motif. The year follows the source attribution; the warm patina is retained from the photograph rather than added as a color treatment.
Which side is heads?
- Heads
- Rama VI facing right in uniform, surrounded by Thai lettering.
- Tails
- A three-headed elephant with Thai inscriptions around it.
A different coin. The same fair toss.
The artwork changes, but every virtual toss still has a 50/50 chance of heads or tails. We simulate the movement; the result is chosen independently. This is not a simulation of the physical balance of a historical coin.
Windrain, via Wikimedia Commons. CC0. Both faces cropped from one real paired photograph, background removed and resized. Image license ↗ View source record ↗