For hundreds of years, gold in Thailand in ornaments, dishes and religious amulets has used. In ancient times were in many statues of Buddhist temples thick gold layers. Wealthy merchants and nobles wore jewelry bracelets, necklaces and rings.

If Bangkok was over 200 years ago, gold was as popular as ever was built. As Bangkok grew in population and prosperity, would be small merchants time, mostly of Chinese descent, purchase chains or bracelets with a substitute for money, as a hedge against bad times. If the conditions were difficult, they would trade the precious chains for cash to continue operations. People who had emigrated to know from the chaos elsewhere Bangkok relatively peaceful first-hand that the bar, no paper, is a true store of value.

Early Bangkok dealers in precious metals were concentrated in the Yaowarat District of Bangkok, and the section of the Chao Phraya River, Silom. When you visit these two areas, you are still a few old two-story buildings where the ground floor shops are painted bright red, are filled with glass cabinets lined yellow metal chains of all sizes. They also wear rings, bracelets, charms, pins and housing.
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