Catalog
1 Kyat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Myanmar |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Reference(s) | P#67 |
| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio portrait of General Aung San in military uniform faces three-quarters right against a plain field. The central vignette carries a multicolour guilloche rosette with a floral centre, enclosed within fine lathe-work frames and ornamental corner devices. The denomination in Burmese script appears to the right of the rosette, with decorative border bands of diamond and teardrop motifs along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of General Aung San |
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Myanmar's currency was renamed from Kyat issued under the Union of Burma Bank to notes bearing the Central Bank of Myanmar name following the 1988 military coup and the junta's subsequent rebranding of the country itself — from Burma to Myanmar — in 1989. This note is among the first series to carry that new institutional name, though the Security Printing Works facility in Rangoon (itself not yet officially renamed Yangon in common usage) continued operating under continuity from the previous regime's infrastructure.
The 1 Kyat denomination had limited practical purchasing power by 1990, when rampant inflation had already eroded low-denomination notes to near irrelevance in daily transactions.