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50 Baht - Rama IX Series 16
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 2011-2016 |
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| Value | 50 Bahts (50 บาท) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 ห้าสิบบาท รัฐบาลไทย ธนบัตรเป็นเงินที่ชําระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย ๕๐ (Translation: 50 Fifty Baht Government of Thailand This note is legal tender for 50) |
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| Reverse lettering | สมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช 50 พ.ศ. ๒๑๓๓ - ๒๑๔๘ ๕๐ โทษฐานปลอมแปลงธนบัตร คือจำคุกตลอดชีวิตหรือจำคุกอย่างสูงยี่สิบปี และปรับอย่างสูงสี่หมื่นบาท (Translation: King Naresuan the Great B.E. 2133 - 2148 (1590-1605) 50 50 Penalty for making counterfeit banknotes is life imprisonment or up to twenty years and up to 40000 baht fine) |
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Series 16 was introduced partly to address counterfeiting pressure that had grown acute in the mid-2000s, prompting the Bank of Thailand to substantially upgrade the security thread specification across the denomination range. The 50 baht note in this series carries a windowed thread — a meaningful step up from the fully embedded threads used in earlier issues, though the note stops well short of the polymer substrate that Thailand had already adopted for its 20 baht denomination by this point.
Printed entirely in-house at the Ratchadaphisek Road facility, which has produced Thai notes since 1969 and remains one of the few central bank printing works in Southeast Asia fully owned and operated by its issuing authority.