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50 Satang Series 9
| Issuer | Government of Thailand |
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| Year | 1941-1948 |
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| Value | 50 Satangs (50 สตางค์) |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print over a red underprint, with serial number and prefix in red and a black manuscript signature. The Garuda emblem is centred at the top, above a white circular vignette bearing the Constitution of Siam (1932) in red, overlaid with green Thai script. A decorative pillar appears at the left margin, with the denomination inscribed in English uppercase within a rectangular panel at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | รัฐบาลไทย ธนบัตร์เป็นเงินที่ชำระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย ห้าสิบสตางค์ รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการคลัง THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED LONDON (Translation: Thai Government This banknote is legal for debt repayment. Fifty Satang Minister of Finance) |
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Thailand's Series 9 notes were introduced under the government of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, whose administration steered the country through a period of formal alliance with Imperial Japan following the December 1941 invasion. The fact that De La Rue in London continued supplying printed currency to a Japanese-aligned government is less paradoxical than it appears — the plates and stock for this series had been prepared before the alliance shifted, and wartime disruption to distribution rather than production accounts for the long issue window stretching to 1948.
The 50 Satang was a fractional denomination, and low-value notes from this period absorbed the heaviest day-to-day wear. Survivors in any collectible grade are proportionally uncommon.