The Dvaravati Kingdom was located in the central area of the Chao Phraya River basin – in the area where nowadays known as Nakhon Pathom Province. Gold coins and silver coins with different imprinted symbols were used as money in this era. Those symbols on the coins reflected the Buddhist beliefs. Dvaravati gold and silver coins could be easily distinguished by an unique image of a conch shell minted on one side. The other side was imprinted with an image of Sri Vatsa, a temple, a thunderbolt with a whip and an elephant hook on both sides, the sun and the moon at the top, as well as a fish or wavy lines at the bottom. Another group of coins were impressed with an ancient Sanskrit inscription on oneside and on the other side, an image of a cow and a calf, a water pot, a Dharma wheel, a conch shell as well as a deer.
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Driving through the central plains of Thailand this weekend took me through some of the towns associated with the ancient kingdom of Dvaravati. Wikipedia Dvaravati entry tells us we are looking at a kingdom or possibly a collection of city states dating from 6th. to the 11th. Centuries straddling the Chao Phraya river basin. It's likely that the Gulf of Thailand's shores were much farther north than they are today due to the gradual silting up of the river's estuary.