Catalog
10 Kyats
| Issuer | Union of Burma Bank |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Size | 145 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of General Aung San in military uniform and peaked cap occupies the left half of the note, set within an ornate foliate guilloche border. The right half carries the denomination in large Burmese script numerals and the value text TEN KYATS at the lower right, against a multicolour guilloche underprint of horizontal bands in red and blue. Numeral 10 counters appear at all four corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNION OF BURMA BANK TEN KYATS တစ်ဆယ်ကျပ် ၁၀ |
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The Union of Burma Bank replaced the People's Bank of Burma as the central issuing authority in 1969, and this 1973 series was among its first fully established note emissions. Burma's monetary system in this period was under near-total state control following Ne Win's 1962 coup, which nationalized the banking sector and severed most ties with international financial infrastructure.
The watermark is the sole security feature — no security thread, no fluorescent printing. Modest even by the standards of comparable regional issues of the decade.