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Show Siamese Currency It takes 100 satang to make a baht, the latter being the equivalent of 0.CG307 grams of tine gold. The baht, sometimes just bat, is also the unit of weight. Eighty baht equal one chang, and GO chang equjl one haph. One-eighth One-eighth of a baht is called n fuang, nnd (wo fuang are a sailing. There are also wahs, kups and nlcws, ns well as sens, yotes, tanhs and tanans. Twenty tanans formerly equaled half a coconut coco-nut shell. You will have to keep that all straight in your mind If you have financial Intercourse with Slam. But remember especially that the Ileal is now out of use officially ns a money unit. New Orleans Times-Picayune. |