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1 Baht - Rama IX 9th series
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 1 Baht (1 บาท) (1 THB) |
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| Obverse description | A portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in Supreme Commander uniform occupies the left portion of the face, set within an elaborate guilloche border. To the right, a finely rendered intaglio vignette presents Wat Pho as seen from the Chao Phraya River. Thai inscriptions appear in letterpress above and below the central composition, identifying the issuer and denomination. |
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| Reverse description | The Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall is rendered in precise intaglio at centre, its Italian Renaissance dome and symmetrical wings rising above a lightly tinted guilloche underprint. Denomination numeral '1' appears in ornate cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners, flanked by foliate guilloche borders. The printer's imprint and a Thai penal warning inscription are set in small letterpress type along the lower margin. |
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Thailand's 9th series began issuing in 1955 under the same De La Rue contract that had supplied Thai currency since the postwar reconstruction period. The 1 Baht was the lowest denomination in the series and saw correspondingly brutal circulation — worn examples are the rule, not the exception. De La Rue's distinctive intaglio printing held up better than the substrate, meaning the paper typically failed before the ink did.
The two-tier watermark arrangement — a constitution vessel on one register, the royal profile on another — was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting escalation following documented forgery problems with earlier low-denomination notes in the 1940s.