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1000 Baht
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in three-quarter view facing right, dressed in the full uniform of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with a central starburst vignette incorporating royal regalia. Thai inscriptions appear at upper left, the denomination numeral '1000' at upper right, and two signature lines with titles below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette illustrates King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit during a Royal Visit to the Baan Bakong reservoir in Narathiwat Province, with subsidiary inset vignettes showing the royal couple greeting local children. The composition is enclosed within decorative guilloche borders rendered in a multicolour underprint. |
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Pick 92 was introduced as part of a broader series refresh that followed Thailand's sustained economic expansion through the late 1980s — the years when Bangkok was briefly one of the fastest-growing cities in Asia, and the 1000 Baht note was seeing genuine heavy use as a transactional denomination rather than a store-of-value curiosity. Thomas De La Rue's printing is characteristically tight on this issue, with good ink saturation that tends to hold up reasonably well even in circulated grades.
The watermark on this series would be superseded within a few years as the Bank of Thailand moved toward polymer and enhanced intaglio security in response to regional counterfeiting pressures exposed during the 1997 financial crisis.