Brevissimo Ma Dulce (Very Short But Sweet)

Ah! So in the last post I mentioned the coin that one of my students gave me...I figured out what it is!!!! I looked up 'Asian Scripts' and got to this website: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/brahmi.html - Scripts descenced from Brahmi, which is a script that was used in Asia in the 3rd century BC, perhaps even as far back as the 6th century (assording to wikipedia so that may not be entirely accurate) (Also it says that Brahmi influenced Hangul!!!! Ahhh!) Anyways back to the website- I looked through these alphabets (by no means all of the alphabets in Asia but just some of the most popular) and I looked at the letters on the coin and tried to match them up with one of the alphabets. (I also used my knowledge of the sounds that certain letters in Tamil make, and would check the listed velars, palatals, etc respectively, to try adn save myself some time (if this is confusing, check out the website, it will become more clear). Anyway - even though the writing on the coin in a little hard to figure out, after about 20 minutes I thought that it bore quite a resemblance to the Thai alphabet, so then I looked up "Thai coins" - and sure enough - that is what I have!!!! I have a 5 Baht coin!!! Ah!! I am soo excited that I just did some mini research to figure out which alphabet I was looking at and then was able to find where the coin is from and what denomination it is. Oh man. I love languages. Ah. It's my calling, I think. :)