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20 Baht - Rama X Series 17, polymer
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 20 Bahts (20 บาท) |
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| Obverse lettering | รัฐบาลไทย ธนบัตรเป็นเงินที่ชําระหนี้ได้ตามกฎหมาย ยี่สิบบาท ๒๐ 20 (Translation: Government of Thailand This note is legal tender for Twenty Baht 20 20) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Transparent window |
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| Comments |
Thailand's switch to polymer for the 20 Baht denomination reflects a hard-learned lesson: the 20 is the workhorse of everyday retail circulation, and cotton-paper examples in this denomination were notoriously short-lived. The substrate change was a practical decision driven by replacement cost, not prestige.
The dual-printer attribution — Bangkok and De La Rue's Malwana facility in Sri Lanka — is consistent with how the Bank of Thailand has managed high-volume denominations, splitting production runs across suppliers to meet demand and reduce single-source risk.