Catalog
20 Kyats
| Issuer | Union Bank of Burma |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Size | 149 × 88 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of four agricultural workers harvesting rice in a paddy field, rendered in fine line engraving with a cloud-filled sky in the background. The issuer's name arches across the upper portion of the vignette in bold serif lettering, with the denomination in English at lower right. The design is enclosed within an ornate scrollwork border with numeral corner pieces repeating the value '20'. |
| Reverse lettering | UNION BANK OF BURMA TWENTY KYATS |
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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.