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1000 Baht - Rama VIII
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and tan tones, the obverse is framed by an elaborate Thai decorative border incorporating traditional floral and mythological motifs, surmounted by a Garuda at the top centre. The central vignette presents a view of Angkor Wat to the left, paired with a portrait of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) in military uniform at the right. The denomination '1000' appears at lower left and right, with Thai script inscriptions and two manuscript signatures of Thai government officials along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | รัฐบาล ไทย ธนบัตรเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย พันบาท อธิบดีกรมคลัง รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงคลัง กรมเงินที่ |
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Rama VIII — King Ananda Mahidol — was only eighteen when this note was issued and had spent most of his life in Switzerland, not Thailand. He would be found dead of a gunshot wound in his Bangkok bedroom in June 1946, a death officially ruled accidental but never conclusively explained, and which triggered one of the most politically charged criminal trials in Thai history.
The 1943 issue was produced under Japanese wartime occupation conditions, when Thailand's printing capacity and paper supply were both constrained. P#60 is among the higher-denomination wartime issues and circulated during a period of acute inflation driven by Japanese military expenditure within the country.