Thailand coin question

[Immy]

I'm putting together a 1965 collection of world coins, one example from each country that issued one that year. Turns out there's about 80 total.

Anyway, I'm getting conflicting info about Thailand. I have two Krause catalogs (1989 & 2006) and neither lists one. Nor does the World Coin Gallery website.

Yet I continue to see 1965 Thai coins being sold on eBay. The dating is different; they add 543 years to the western style of dating, so I'd be looking for year 2508.

Can anyone point to a site that confirms a 1965 Thai coin? Thanks in advance!

 

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[maipenrai]

Maybe the reason that you havent found any 1965 coins, is because they didnt date all the coins. Most coins in circulation here are not worth more that face, so I dont really pay much attention to them, just the really old coins, but just know that some were not dated.

 

[Mackaydon]

This may help you: JORDAN'S COIN PAGE
And here's a conversion table to help you with the Thai coin dates:
“Creounity Time Machine”, the universal date converter for coin collectors
This may give you your answer--from another onliner: Many older Thailand coins have "frozen dates". For example, 1 baht coins bearing the date "2505" (1962 AD) were struck from 1962 right up to 1982. It's impossible to tell exactly when in that 20-year period a 2505-dated coin was struck, so those coins are effectively "undated".

However, since the 1980s, most Thai coins have actual dates on them.
Don...

 

[Immy]

Pretty interesting Don, thanks. So the eBayers who say they have 1965 coins may not know what year they actually are.