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1 Baht - Rama VIII Posthumous, Series 8 'American'
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Printer | Tudor Press Incorporated, Boston, Massachusetts, United States (1910-1967) |
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| Reverse lettering | โทษฐานปลอมหรือแปลงธนบัตรคือจำคุกตั้งแต่สิบปีถึงตลอดชีวิตและปรับตั้งแต่ พันบาทถึงหมื่นบาทหรือพันเท่าราคาธนบัตรปลอมแล้วแต่จำนวนไหนจะมากกว่ากัน (Translation: Penalty for counterfeiting the banknote is ten years up to life imprisonment, and fined thousand up to ten thousands Baht or thousand times of that counterfeited notes depends on which is higher.) |
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| Protection description | Repeating inscriptions `MILITARY AUTHORITY`. |
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Rama VIII — King Ananda Mahidol — died on 9 June 1946 under circumstances that remain officially unresolved: a single gunshot wound to the head, found in his bedchamber at the Grand Palace. He was nineteen. This note was issued posthumously, weeks after his death, making the portrait simultaneously a debut and a memorial. Three palace attendants were eventually executed for the killing in 1955, though the verdict has never satisfied historians.
Tudor Press was an unusual choice for Thai currency — the contract reflected wartime disruptions to established relationships with European printers. The "American" designation in the series name distinguishes these from the British-printed issues of the same type.