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20 Baht - Rama VIII Series 4, Survey Dept.
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Value | 20 Bahts (20 บาท) (20 THB) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing bust of King Rama VIII (Ananda Mahidol) as central vignette, with a view of the Phra Thinang Chakri Maha Prasat throne hall within the Grand Palace below. A Garuda emblem occupies the top centre, flanked by Arabic serial numbers in red, with the Thai denomination in the upper right and the Arabic numeral denomination in the lower left; a three-headed elephant (Airavata) appears at the lower right. The overall note is printed in green with the prefix and serial numbers rendered in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | ๒๐ 20 โทสถานปลอมหรือแปลงธนบัตรคือจำคุกตั้งแต่สิบปีถึงตลอดชีวิตและปรับตั้งแต่ พันบาทถึงหมื่นบาทหรือพันเท่าราคาธนบัตรปลอมแล้วแต่จำนวนไหนจะมากกว่ากัน (Translation: 20 Penalty for counterfeiting the banknote is ten years up to life imprisonment, and fined thousand up to ten thousands Baht or thousand times of that counterfeited notes depends on which is higher.) |
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Thailand printed its own currency during the Japanese occupation period, a logistical necessity after the war severed normal access to foreign security printers. The Survey Department — a cartographic and technical agency pressed into emergency banknote production — was an improvised solution, and the quality of the resulting notes reflects those constraints. Paper consistency and ink registration are noticeably variable across the series.
Pick 41 was issued across a two-year window that coincided with Thailand's uncomfortable position as a nominal Japanese ally, its government having signed the military alliance in December 1941 under significant duress.