Sema-Shaped Medal with the Saeyit Portrait and Antique Welded Loop, Edition “Charoen Phon Lap Ma Mai Khat,” Luang Pho Itthi Bhaddacaro, Wat Chulamanee, B.E. 2565 (2022)

B.E. 2565

A sema-shaped medal bearing the Saeyit portrait, with an antique welded loop, edition “Charoen Phon Lap Ma Mai Khat” (“blessings abound, fortune never ceasing”), Luang Pho Itthi Bhaddacaro, Wat Chulamanee, B.E. 2565 — created to raise funds for the purchase of land offered to Wat Chulamanee · 13 items in all, with the final production figures announced by the temple on 13 April 2022 and the reverence prices.

The sema-shaped medal with the Saeyit portrait and antique welded loop, edition “Charoen Phon Lap Ma Mai Khat” (“blessings abound, fortune never ceasing”), B.E. 2565, bears the likeness of Luang Pho Itthi Bhaddacaro of Wat Chulamanee, Samut Songkhram. The temple describes the design as taking the sema (boundary-stone) shape, a form held to be timeless, and joining it to the temple’s celebrated “Saeyit” (birthday) medal, from which this edition came to be.

The obverse bears a half-length portrait within a sema frame edged with kanok foliage, surmounted by a panel inscribed with his ecclesiastical title “Phra Khru Sophit Wiriyaphon.” The suspension loop is of the antique welded type from which the edition takes its name. The reverse bears a yantra with sacred characters, the words “Charoen Phon Lap Ma Mai Khat” curving along the upper rim, and along the lower rim the name of Wat Chulamanee, Samut Songkhram, with the year 65.

Purpose of the creation: to raise funds for the purchase of land offered to Wat Chulamanee, Samut Songkhram.

Items produced and reverence prices

The production figures for items 2–13 are the final totals given in the temple’s announcement dated 13 April 2022 (every item is individually numbered).

No.	Item	Quantity made	Reverence price
1	Patron-President set, trial strike, stamped with the code “special,” 6 medals — gold with red Rachawadi enamel on the obverse and red / green / blue on the reverse, and silver with red Rachawadi enamel on the obverse and red / green / blue on the reverse (gold face, gold loop)	399 sets	199,999 baht
2	Pure gold, red Rachawadi enamel, approx. 17 g	255 medals	54,000 baht
3	Pure gold, approx. 17 g	151 medals	52,000 baht
4	Pure silver, red Rachawadi enamel, gold face	3,199 medals	6,500 baht
5	Full-formula nawaloha rich in gold, red Rachawadi enamel, gold face	2,000 medals	4,500 baht
6	Pure silver, red Rachawadi enamel with enamelled robe	10,549 medals	2,500 baht
7	Pure silver	4,000 medals	2,000 baht
8	Full-formula nawaloha rich in gold, red Rachawadi enamel, silver face	2,498 medals	1,700 baht
9	Full-formula nawaloha rich in gold	2,816 medals	1,000 baht
10	Maha chanuan sacred alloy, gilt gold	10,000 medals	600 baht
11	Maha chanuan sacred alloy, welded loop	20,000 medals	400 baht
12	Maha chanuan sacred alloy, black patina	50,000 medals	400 baht
13	Committee set of 3 medals — maha chanuan sacred alloy, gilt gold, with red / orange / blue Rachawadi enamel and enamelled robe	9,591 sets	1,800 baht

Photographs of the medal and its material variants

For further details, please contact Wat Chulamanee, Amphawa, Samut Songkhram, directly.

Note: compiled from the publicity posters and the temple’s announcement of the final production figures, in order to record the history of this edition; it is not intended for any sale or purchase. For item 2 the poster gives a reverence price of 55,000 baht while the announcement gives 54,000 baht; this page follows the announcement.