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50 Satang - Rama VIII Series 5
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1942-1944 |
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| Currency | Baht (1897-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ๕๐สต. รัฐบาล ไทย ธนบัตร์เป็นเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย ห้าสิบสตางค์ รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการคลัง 50ST. (Translation: 50 ST. [Satang] Government of Thailand Banknote is legal tender, could be used as silver to pay debt by the law Fifty Satang Minister of Finance) |
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| Reverse lettering | ๕๐ 50 โทษฐานปลอมหรือแปลงธนบัตร์คือจำคุกตั้งแต่สิบปีถึงตลอดชีวิตและปรับตั้งแต่ พันบาทถึงหมื่นบาทหรือพันเท่าราคาธนบัตร์ปลอมแล้วแต่จำนวนไหนจะมากกว่ากัน (Translation: 50 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's wartime alliance with Japan made domestic printing arrangements politically expedient, and this 50 Satang note was produced by Japan's National Printing Bureau — the same government facility that printed Imperial Japan's own currency and official documents. The arrangement was not unusual for Axis-aligned states during the early 1940s, but it placed Thai monetary production entirely within Japan's administrative reach at a moment when Thailand had little practical independence.
Rama VIII, Ananda Mahidol, was only a teenager studying in Switzerland when this series entered circulation — and would die under deeply disputed circumstances in June 1946, still never having formally ruled.