Catalog
10 Kyats
| Issuer | Union Bank of Burma |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Value | 10 Kyats (10 MMK) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a working elephant moving a large timber log, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving with a temple or pagoda structure visible in the background. The composition is set within an ornate border of traditional Burmese scrollwork and foliate designs, with the denomination numeral "10" repeated in each corner. The bank name and denomination appear in English lettering above and below the central scene respectively. |
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| Protection description | Eaturing a Chinthe (mythical lion-dragon guardian) figure, located in the blank panel to the left of the central obverse design. |
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| Comments |
Burma's first post-independence central banking notes, of which this is part, replaced the Currency Board issues that had carried the country through the immediate postwar years. The Union Bank of Burma was established in 1952, and this 1953 series was its opening statement as a full issuing authority — De La Rue providing the printing credibility that a newly sovereign institution needed before its own infrastructure could support such work.
The watermark on this series is a simple pattern rather than a portrait, a deliberate choice that distanced these notes visually from the colonial-era issues they superseded.