20 Kyats

Burma's 1958 issue came during a particularly turbulent stretch — the civilian government under U Nu had temporarily handed power to General Ne Win's caretaker administration that same year, following the formal split of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. The Union Bank was itself a relatively recent institution, having replaced the Burma Currency Board only in 1952, and the series printed by De La Rue represented one of the first fully sovereign note programs produced after that transition settled.

De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable by their standards — Burma was among dozens of newly independent states contracting London security printers through the 1950s. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature on the issue.