Catalog
500 Baht
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 2014-2016 |
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| Size | 156 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a full-face portrait of H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in the ceremonial robes of the Chakri dynasty, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The large denomination numeral '500' appears in Thai script to the centre-left of the note, with a vertical security foil strip bearing the royal monogram positioned to the right. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Chakri royal robes, facing front; vertical security thread embedded in the paper; vertical security foil strip with royal monogram on the obverse. |
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P#121 belongs to the sixteenth series of Thai banknotes, introduced under Rama IX — Bhumibol Adulyadej — whose reign of over seven decades made him the world's longest-serving head of state at the time of issue. The 500 Baht denomination had by this period become a workhorse note in everyday Thai commerce, and the decision to produce it domestically at the Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works reflected a long-standing policy of printing independence that the central bank had maintained since the facility's establishment in 1969.
The security foil on this series was a meaningful upgrade over earlier sixteenth-series printings, introduced in part as a response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting operations detected in Southeast Asia during the early 2010s.