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1000 Baht - Rama VIII
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a view of Prasat Phanom Rung or a Khmer-style temple complex at left, set within an ornate intaglio frame with floral and scroll guilloche borders. To the right, a portrait bust of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) in military dress uniform is rendered in fine intaglio. The Garuda emblem appears at the top centre above the Thai state inscription, with the denomination numeral 1000 printed in bold at lower left and right corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | รัฐบาล ไทย ธนบัตรเป็นเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย พันบาท อธิบดีกรมคลัง รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงคลัง 1000 |
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Rama VIII — King Ananda Mahidol — was only nineteen and still studying in Switzerland when this note was issued in his name. He returned to Thailand in 1945 and was found dead from a gunshot wound in June 1946 under circumstances that were never conclusively resolved, making his portrait issues among the most historically loaded of any Thai series.
The 1944 date places this squarely within the Japanese occupation period, when Thailand's economy was under severe strain and high-denomination notes were a practical necessity driven by wartime inflation rather than ordinary commerce.