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1000 Baht - Rama VIII
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Size | 195 × 105 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | รัฐบาล ไทย ธนบัตรเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย พันบาท อธิบดีกรมคลัง รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงคลัง กรมเงินที่ |
| Reverse description | Rendered in pale brown tones on a light ground, the reverse centres on a large ornate arched frame of Thai decorative scrollwork enclosing a landscape vignette of the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall reflected in water. Two circular guilloche rosettes flank the central arch, with the denomination '1000' in numerals at the lower left and right corners. A Thai script inscription panel runs along the bottom edge. |
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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.