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1000 Baht Queen Sirikit's 60th Birthday
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit standing together, the King holding an open survey map, set against a guilloche underprint with a landscape vignette of the Bhumibol Dam to the right and Krung Ching waterfall to the left. A secondary vignette at lower left shows the King meeting with rural subjects in the field, while the denomination numeral 1000 appears in Thai script at the lower centre. Thai inscriptions and the royal emblem appear in the upper portions of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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This note was issued to mark the sixtieth birthday of Queen Sirikit on 12 August 1992 — a date that fell in the same year as the Black May political crisis, when pro-democracy protests in Bangkok were suppressed by the military with considerable violence. The commemorative issue proceeded regardless, part of a broader royal celebration that carried significant symbolic weight for the monarchy at a moment of acute political instability.
Printed domestically at the Thai Banknote Printing Works rather than contracted abroad, as earlier high-denomination commemoratives sometimes were. Pick 96 is distinct from the regular 1000 Baht issues of the period and was not intended for general circulation, though many did enter it.