People flock to grab King’s commemorative banknotes and coins

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A large number of people flocked to the Government Savings Bank head office in Saphan Kwai area to get hold of HM the King’s 7th cycle or 84th birthday anniversary commemorative banknotes as souvenirs.

 

GSB was allotted with 300,000 commemorative banknotes from the Bank of Thailand of which 50,000 notes were reserved for the head office and the rest distributed to bank’s branches across the country.

 

Each individual can buy a maximum of five banknotes. The 50,000 banknotes were sold out within two hours.

Earlier, the GSB offered 90,000 84th birthday anniversary commemorative banknotes to the public. They were sold out within a day.

 

Meanwhile, hundreds of coin collectors flocked to the Treasury Department to get hold of commemorative coins of HM the King and Their Majesties.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/people-flock-to-grab-kings-commemorative-banknotes-and-coins/

 

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I truly wish the Thai treasury would opt to regularly mint gold and silver coinage.

There is a great deal of demand worldwide for quality gold coins, and Thailand could produce some beautiful coins.

It would also be a source of profit for the treasury.