The King's 60th Birthday Anniversary (3rd Series)

มหามงคลเฉลิมพระชนมพรรษา 5 รอบ (ชุด3)

1987/2530-12-05

To commemorate the fifth birthday cycle, i.e. the 60th Birthday, of King Bhumipon Adunyadet

1987/39-44

2 Baht per design

30 Baht per design

180 Baht (unused), 48 Baht (used)

Unused set

30 x 48 mm for design 1, and 27 x 48 mm for all the other designs

3,000,000 pieces per design

Cartor S.A., France

Portraits of the key members of the in 1988 existing Royal Family of Thailand and in gold the corresponding royal cyphers and coats of arms, as well as some other related emblems and royal paraphernalia: 1. mombers of the Royal Family living in Thailand, with on the left the coat of arms of the Chakri Dynasty (fig.) and on the right the Royal Cypher of the King; 2. King Bhumipon Adunyadet and Queen Sirikit Kitthiyagon and their Royal Cyphers; 3. Princess Sri Nagarindra, the Princess Mother and her Royal Cypher, as well as the emblem of the Princess Mother Medical Volunteer Foundation; 4. Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, the Crown Prince of Thailand and his Royal Cypher, as well as the Royal Standard of the Crown Prince called Thong Yaowaraht (fig.); 5. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and her Royal Cypher, as well as the emblem of the Sai Jai Thai (สายใจไทย) Foundation; 6. Princess Chulaphorn Walailak and her Royal Cypher, as well as the Albert Einstein Gold Medal, which she received from UNESCO. In blue, on the left side of each stamp, is the text H.M. the King's 60th Birthday Anniversary, and the Thai text Maha Mongkhon Chaleum Phra Chanom Phansa Ha Rob (มหามงคลเฉลิมพระชนมพรรษา 5 รอบ), i.e. the ‘Auspicious Occassion of the Fifth Birthday Cycle Celebrations’.

Bhumipon Adunyadet, Chakri, maha, Sirikit Kitthiyagon, Sirindhorn, Sri Nagarindra, mongkhon, phansa, Thong Yaowaraht, Chulaphorn Walailak