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500 Baht - Rama IX Reign
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Baht (1897-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, in shades of purple and pink, presents a central vignette of King Rama III and King Rama IV standing together in traditional royal attire, set against a panoramic background of Wat Phra Kaew (the Temple of the Emerald Buddha) and the Grand Palace complex in Bangkok. A decorative mythical Nok Kinnaree figure appears at lower right, and guilloche patterning frames the composition. The denomination '500' in Thai numerals is displayed at center left, with multi-line Thai inscriptions across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | King Bhumibol Adulyadej's portrait embedded in the paper; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Pick 100 belongs to the 13th series of Thai banknotes, introduced under the authority of the Bank of Thailand's own printing works — one of relatively few central banks in Southeast Asia to have operated an in-house facility capable of producing the full note, rather than contracting abroad. By the mid-1990s the facility had accumulated enough technical depth to incorporate security threads meeting international standards without foreign assistance.
The 500 Baht denomination carried serious weight during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when baht-denominated notes of this value were being hoarded as the currency collapsed roughly 50% against the dollar between July and December of that year. Notes from this series remained legal tender throughout the crisis and its aftermath.