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500 Baht
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 2014-2016 |
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| Printer | Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works, Bangkok, Thailand (1969-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | พระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลกมหาราช พ.ศ. ๒๓๒๕ - ๒๓๕๒ 500 ๕๐๐ โทษฐานปลอมแปลงธนบัตร คือจำคุกตลอดชีวิตหรือจำคุกอย่างสูงยี่สิบปี และปรับอย่างสูงสี่หมื่นบาท (Translation: Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok Maharaj B.E. 2325-2352 (1782-1809) 500 500 Penalty for making counterfeit banknotes is life imprisonment or up to twenty years and up to 40,000 baht fine) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Security foil |
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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.