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10 Baht - Rama VIII Series 3
| Issuer | Government of Siam |
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| Year | 1935-1936 |
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| Reference(s) | P#24 |
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| Obverse lettering | ๑๐ รัฐบาล สยาม ธนบัตร์เป็นเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย สิบบาท 10 รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการคลัง THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON. (Translation: 10 Government of Siam Banknote is legal tender Ten Baht Minister of Finance) |
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| Protection description | Elephant watermark |
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Series 3 was the first Siamese note to bear the image of Ananda Mahidol, who became Rama VIII at age nine following the abdication of his uncle Prajadhiporn in 1935. The timing was awkward: Ananda was still a schoolboy in Lausanne when these notes entered circulation, and would not set foot in Siam until 1938. De La Rue produced the series under the transition government that had emerged from the 1932 constitutional coup, a regime still working out what a constitutional monarchy was supposed to look like in practice.
Ananda's 1946 death — a single gunshot wound, officially ruled accidental, never convincingly resolved — made all notes bearing his portrait politically sensitive almost overnight.