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10 Kyats
| Issuer | Peoples Bank of Burma |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Size | 159 × 81 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of General Aung San in an oval vignette at centre, printed in red-brown on a pink underprint with large numeral guilloché panels to either side. Burmese script legends run along the top border and vertically along the left margin, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | A woman picking cotton occupies the right portion of the design within a large vignette, rendered in red-brown intaglio print. To the left, the state arms of Burma appear within an ornate cartouche. The inscription 'TEN KYATS' is set in large letters at lower centre, with 'PEOPLES BANK OF BURMA' along the bottom border panel. |
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The Peoples Bank of Burma was established in 1952 but took on its full central banking role only after the 1962 military coup brought Ne Win to power. This 1965 issue belongs to the first series produced under that reorganized socialist state, replacing the earlier Union Bank notes as the new government moved to consolidate financial control. Security Banknote Company, a Chicago-based firm, held the printing contract — an unremarkable but telling detail given Burma's nominal nonalignment policy at the time.
The single watermark is the sole security feature, which was already considered minimal by mid-1960s standards.