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100 Baht - Rama VIII Posthumous, Series 8 'American'
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 100 Bahts (100 บาท) |
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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 were never conclusively resolved. The official finding was accidental discharge of his own pistol, but the case generated enormous political turbulence, and three palace attendants were eventually executed for alleged regicide. This note, printed in Boston, was authorized and issued in the months following his death, making it one of the few Thai currency issues to carry a monarch's portrait posthumously rather than as a reigning sovereign.
Tudor Press was an unusual choice for a national currency printer — primarily a commercial and securities printer rather than a specialist banknote house. The Series 8 designation distinguishes this American printing from contemporaneous Thai issues produced elsewhere.