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20 Baht - Rama VIII Series 4, Thomas type I
| Issuer | Government of Siam |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ๒๐ รัฐบาล สยาม ธนบัตร์เป็นเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย ยี่สิบบาท รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการคลัง 20 THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON. (Translation: 20 Government of Siam Banknote is legal tender, could be used as silver to pay debt by the law Twenty Baht Minister of Finance) |
| Reverse description | Green intaglio print. The central vignette presents a front elevation of the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall, designed by Italian architect Mario Tamagno, as viewed from the Royal Plaza, rendered within a formal cartouche frame with guilloche border work. Thai denomination numerals appear at the upper-left corner and Arabic denomination numerals at the upper right, with a penalty clause inscription running along the lower portion of the cartouche frame. |
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Rama VIII — Ananda Mahidol — was only fourteen and still enrolled at school in Switzerland when the Government of Siam issued this series in 1939. He would never meaningfully reign; found dead from a gunshot wound in the Grand Palace in June 1946, his death was officially ruled accidental, though the circumstances were never resolved and three palace attendants were eventually executed for it.
The "Type I" distinction on this De La Rue printing relates to differences in the serial number configuration later used to separate printings as the series evolved through the war years, when Siam's position between Japanese and Allied pressure made continuity of currency administration anything but routine.