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5 Baht - Rama VIII Series 3 Type II
| Issuer | Government of Siam (Ministry of Finance) |
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| Year | 1936-1938 |
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| Reference(s) | Thai CB#SCM#TB39 |
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| Obverse lettering | รัฐบาล สยาม ธนบัตรนี้เป็นการชําระหนี้ตามกฎหมาย ห้าบาท รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการคลัง THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON. (Translation: Government of Siam This banknote is legal tender Five Baht Minister of Finance) |
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| Reverse lettering | โทษฐานปลอมหรือแปลงธนบัตรคือจำคุกตั้งแต่สิบปีถึงตลอดชีวิตและปรับตั้งแต่ พันบาทถึงหมื่นบาทหรือพันเท่าราคาธนบัตรปลอมแล้วแต่จำนวนไหนจะมากกว่ากัน THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON. (Translation: 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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Series 3 Type II notes were issued under Rama VIII — Ananda Mahidol — who came to the throne as a child of nine in 1935 and died under deeply contested circumstances in June 1946, a single gunshot wound to the head in the Grand Palace. He never formally ruled in any practical sense; regency councils governed throughout. The De La Rue contract for this series predated his accession and was inherited from the administrative momentum of the Khana Ratsadon, the military-civilian group that had ended absolute monarchy in 1932.
De La Rue had printed Siamese notes since the late nineteenth century. The Type I to Type II distinction within Series 3 relates to signature combinations rather than any change in the plate work itself.