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10 Baht - Rama VIII Series 7, Type I watermark constitution
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a front-facing bust portrait of King Rama VIII (Ananda Mahidol), with Mahakan Fort and the Golden Mountain (Phu Khao Thong) visible in the background. Denomination numerals appear at left and right, with Thai-script inscriptions identifying the issuing authority and legal tender status. The design is framed by intricate guilloche border patterns. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed intaglio view of the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall as seen from the Royal Plaza, its Italian Renaissance dome and colonnaded façade rendered with fine engraved linework. Denomination numerals "10" appear in the upper left and upper right corners, flanked by ornate guilloche rosettes, while a large blank oval at lower left serves as the watermark window. Two lines of Thai-script anti-counterfeiting text run across the lower margin beneath the architectural vignette. |
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Thailand's first modern banknotes printed by Thomas De La Rue were ordered during WWII but could not be delivered — the series reached circulation only after the Japanese occupation ended in 1945. The Type I watermark, showing the constitution monument, distinguishes this issue from the later Type II chakra watermark variants on otherwise identical notes.
Rama VIII — King Ananda Mahidol — died in June 1946 under circumstances that remain officially unresolved. Notes bearing his royal cipher were quietly withdrawn and replaced, making surviving circulated examples rarer than the print run alone would suggest.