Catalog
1 Pya Aung San
| Issuer | People's Bank of the Union of Burma |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Thickness | 1.15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uniformed bust of Major General Aung San facing slightly left, occupying the central field. A circular Burmese-script legend surrounds the portrait, reading the name of the Union of Burma and the People's Bank. Two five-pointed stars flank the base of the bust, with the Burmese Era date 1328 inscribed in the lower segment of the legend. |
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| Reverse script | Burmese |
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Burma's 1966 low-denomination coinage was issued in the wake of General Ne Win's second coup, which had brought the Burma Socialist Programme Party to power in March of that year. The shift to aluminium for fractional coins reflected a government in the early stages of constructing an autarkic socialist economy — one that would, within a decade, produce chronic metal shortages and repeated coinage interruptions.
Aung San, whose image anchors this series, was assassinated in 1947 before Burmese independence was achieved, making him a permanent political symbol rather than a contested one.