10 Rupees Burma Currency Board

The Burma Currency Board was established by the British to manage Burmese currency following the Japanese occupation, which had flooded the country with near-worthless military scrip. This 10 Rupee note belongs to the immediate postwar transitional period — Burma was still under British administration in 1947 and had not yet achieved independence, which came in January 1948.

Printing at the Reserve Bank of India Press in Nasik was a practical necessity; Burma had no sovereign printing infrastructure of its own. The rupee-denominated series was retired shortly after independence, when Burma moved to the kyat system and broke its currency peg to the Indian rupee.