I received in my change something that looks like, but I don’t think is, a Euro coin.
Would anyone have an idea of what it is from a view of both sides?
I’m posting from my mobile, apologies if those links don’t work for everyone.
Thai 10-baht.
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Thanks, I thought the build pictured on one side did look somewhat SE Asian.
The links in the OP turn up blank pages, but Mogle’s link is indeed the Thai 10-baht coin, the highest-denomination coin. At today’s exchange rate, it’s worth about 32 US cents.
The Wikipedia article shows they’ve been minted since 1988, but I think the early ones were just special collectors’ editions or the like, as I distinctly recall them coming into general circulation only in the early to mid-1990s. Funny, but I recall a kerfuffle in Europe after the adoption of the euro, as the 10-baht coin was about the same size as one of the euro coins but worth considerably less, and people could use them in vending machines there. I think that’s been fixed.
The building on the reverse is Wat Arun or Temple of the Dawn. It appears in many tourism-promotion posters.
One more note on the 10-baht coin. They were intended to replace the 10-baht banknote, which are nonexistent now. (The smallest note we have now is the 20 baht.) But I recall Banharn Silpa-archa blaming the 10-baht coin for inflation when he was prime minister from 1995-96. Said the coins made people think 10 baht wasn’t worth anything, since it had been relegated to coinage. So his big economic inflation-busting idea was to reintroduce the 10-baht banknote, thereby making people believe in the inherent value of 10-bahthood and consequently vanquish inflation. Well, that didn’t work out so well, as inflation persisted – then came the big crash on July 2, 1997 – and the notes disappeared again after a couple of years.