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1 Baht - Rama VIII Series 5, type I Thai serial bottom
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1942-1944 |
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| Value | 1 Baht (1 บาท) |
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| Reverse description | Central architectural vignette of Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) viewed behind the Padej Dusakorn northeast corner fort and the north wall of the Grand Palace complex; Thai denomination appears in the upper-left corner and Arabic denomination in the upper-right corner. A counterfeiting penalty inscription is set within a semicircular panel at the lower centre, with the overall design executed in dark brown intaglio. |
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| Protection description | Constitution manuscript placed on two-tiered Phan tray |
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Thailand's wartime alignment with Japan made this note possible — and politically loaded. With European printers inaccessible and the country under a de facto Japanese sphere of influence following the December 1941 agreement that allowed Japanese troop transit, Bangkok turned to Tokyo's National Printing Bureau to produce emergency currency. The arrangement was purely practical, but it made Thailand the only non-Japanese territory to have its domestic banknotes manufactured at that facility during the war.
The Type I designation refers to the serial number placement, with Thai-script serials running along the bottom — a configuration replaced in later printings. P#44 is frequently encountered with toning along the folds, a known characteristic attributed to the paper stock used by the Japanese bureau during wartime material constraints.