Someone’s offering 100,000 baht for this coin

Everyone is smashing their piggy banks and searching under the sofa after an antique shop announced it would pay THB100,000 for a rare 10-baht coin.

In 1990 only 100 coins in that denomination were produced for an exhibition abroad, of which only half made it back to Thailand.

“Only 50 coins made it back to Thailand,” Punnawat Siriruengwanich, owner of Panun Jewelry Shop in Rayong told Khaosod. “So it’s a very rare coin and a great interest for coin collectors. Only five of these coins have been found, as far as I know.”

That would mean another 45 or so are floating around out there. Could it be in your pocket? Did you just trade one for a street sausage?

A crazed search has taken off since the announcement, and despite suggestions it is a hoax, Punnawat said he’s serious. He said an unnamed businessman contracted him to search for the coins.

The treaure hunt’s popularity forced him to change his number.

“I did not expect that it would be such a massive trend,” he said. “My phone almost burned down.”