10 Pyas

Burma's early post-independence coinage was issued under the Union of Burma, established after Britain granted independence in January 1948. The 1952 series marked the first substantive rethinking of the currency system, replacing the colonial-era anna denominations with the new kyat and pya structure. Production ran through 1965, just two years after General Ne Win's 1962 coup institutionalized military rule — after which the coinage types were progressively overhauled to shed the civilian government's iconographic choices.