20 Baht / 20 Ticals Series 1, Type II pink background with microtexts

€422,252.00
IssuerThailand
Year1904
TypeStandard banknote
Value20 Bahts
CurrencyBaht / Tical (1869-1897)
CompositionPaper
Size205 × 126 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterDe La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date)
No. printed
Designer(s)
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In circulation to1 June 1947
Reference(s) P#13C
Obverse descriptionGreen print; pink underprint; black prefix and serial numbers; black signatures. Coat of arm at top center, denominations at all 4 corners and text at center, vertical left in Chinese and vertical right in Arabic. Repeating microtext `TWENTYTICALS`, alternating slanted left line and slanted right line, white on pink background; the lines are 90-degrees-counterclockwise-rotated inside left Chinese text frame and right Arabic text frame.
Reverse descriptionBlank.
Signature(s)Pra Suwanpakdi, Mahisara Rajaharudaya,
Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionThree headed elephant Airavata on the center. Thai inscriptions `รัฐบาล สยาม` upper. Denomination `20 TICALS` on the left; Denomination `๒๐ บาท` on the right. English inscriptions `GOVERNMENT OF SIAM` at the bottom.
Obverse lettering20          ๒๐ 暹羅國銀貳拾銖 รัฐบาล สยาม สัญญาจะจ่ายเงินให้แก่ผู้นำธนบัตรนี้มาขึ้นเป็นเงินตราสยาม TWENTY TICALS           ยี่สิบบาท เจ้าพนักงาน        เสนาบดีกระทรวงพระคลัง ๒๐          20 THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED.
(Translation: 20 Siam silver twenty Baht Government of Siam Contract to pay the bearer Siamese currency Twenty Baht Officer        Minister of Royal Treasury 20)
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Catalog ID4272839810
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