1 Kyat

Myanmar's 1999 bronze kyat series arrived during the SLORC-to-SPDC transition, the military junta having renamed itself the State Peace and Development Council in 1997 as a cosmetic rebranding exercise that fooled no one. Sanctions pressure from Western governments throughout this period meant the Central Bank operated under significant foreign reserve constraints, which pushed monetary policy toward low-denomination base metal coinage as a practical necessity.

KM#60 is a relatively short-lived type, superseded within a few years as ongoing inflation eroded the 1-kyat coin's purchasing utility almost entirely.