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500 Baht - Rama IX Series 14
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Printer | Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works, Bangkok, Thailand (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in the uniform of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, positioned at center-right, with the Garuda emblem in the upper left corner and the Royal Ninth Reign monogram below. The vignette is framed by intricate guilloche underprint work in multicolour, with Thai-script inscriptions running along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Series 14 was issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bhumibol Adulyadej's accession to the throne — the Golden Jubilee of 1996 — making this a commemorative issue tied to a specific dynastic milestone rather than a routine replacement series. Thailand's Note Printing Works had been producing domestic issues since 1969, and by the mid-1990s the facility was fully capable of handling the full production run without foreign contract printers.
The watermark security on this series has been noted by collectors as relatively straightforward compared to later Thai issues, which incorporated polymer substrates and more complex optical features from the early 2000s onward.