Talk:History of Thai money

Start class
Don't know how to do a start-class template, but this article needs one, and needs a lot of work. I've added two external links to BOT, and will eventually add one to User:Pawyilee/Sandbox/Royal Thai Survey Department, as they were involved in printing banknotes during WWII, in lieu of Thomas de la Rue and Co.


 * WWII Banknotes, Series 4 (Royal Thai Survey Department).

De La Rue resumed printing Thai banknotes after WWII up until 1971. --Pawyilee (talk) 15:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Clearing up this mess
This really needs to be blown up and started over. It was originally created by an SPA who probably translated a series of Thai articles from the Treasury Museum's website, and is likely a copyright violation. It's based on a very narrow premise, attempting to present a linear history for Thailand alone but going back to cultures that predate Thailand without accounting for the region's shared history, making it impossible to properly integrate into Wikipedia. The major additions by Pawyilee in 2012 are all about the modern Thai baht, and are mostly excessively detailed clutter. Seligne's 2018 copyedits addressed some language issues but haven't fixed the fundamentally flawed structure of the article. I'd hoped the article may be fixable, but any effort further spent trying to do so would probably be better spent starting from scratch. --Paul_012 (talk) 22:59, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean and maybe I haven't helped other than to add a last straw to the camel's back. I have just moved a large section on historical prices to this article from the baht article, where it was far too detailed for an overview article. (Previously at baht, I deleted a wildly WP:OR section on comparative value of other currencies to the baht (going back to Ancient Rome!), all based on the silly error that gold is a fixed reference. Your call. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Historical buying power of the Baht throughout history
because it was excessively detailed for that (overview) article and seemed more appropriately placed in the article about history. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:08, 5 June 2024 (UTC)