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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) |
| Reverse description | Light-blue dominant print over a multicolour guilloche underprint; the central vignette presents a composite scene of King Naresuan the Great — a statue of the king pouring water to declare independence from the Burmese Taungoo Empire, as erected at Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, alongside a depiction of him leading troops toward the Burmese camp, and the statue at Don Chedi Memorial compound, with Phra Chedi Chai Mongkol of Wat Yai Chai Mongkol, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, in the background. The Garuda emblem appears at upper left, the Arabic numeral denomination at upper right, and the Thai numeral denomination at lower left. A vertical 2 mm segmented metallic dark-blue security stripe bearing repeating '50' and 'บาท' / 'BAHT' microtext runs through the note, with EURion constellation elements positioned to the upper left of the central vignette. |
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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.