1000 Kyats

Myanmar's 2004 currency reform was partly driven by the military government's need to demonetize large holdings accumulated outside the banking system — a repeat tactic, given the catastrophic 1987 demonetization under Ne Win that wiped out savings overnight and helped trigger the 1988 pro-democracy uprisings. The 1000 Kyat denomination introduced here was the highest face value in circulation at the time of issue.

The security thread on this series is a basic metallic strip without microprinting — modest by contemporary central bank standards, and one reason counterfeiting remained a documented problem in the mid-2000s.