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1000 Kyats
| Issuer | Central Bank of Myanmar |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 1000 Kyats |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Hluttaw (National Parliament) complex in Naypyidaw, rendered in blue intaglio with fine architectural detail against a multicolour guilloche background incorporating red and blue tones. The issuer name and denomination are inscribed in English along the lower portion of the note. Denomination numerals appear in all four corners within ornamental frames. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Myanmar's Central Bank has issued multiple 1000 Kyat notes across the 2000s and 2010s, each successive release adding incrementally improved security features as counterfeiting of the higher denominations became a documented concern. This 2019 printing sits within a series that has remained structurally unchanged in its basic architecture for years — the security thread and watermark combination here is modest by current regional standards, notably behind contemporaneous issues from the Bank of Thailand or Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
The kyat was demonetized without warning in 1987 under Ne Win, wiping out savings overnight. That episode left a lasting distrust of large-denomination paper that still shapes how 1000 Kyat notes actually circulate — heavily used, rarely saved.