Catalog
50 Pyas
| Issuer | Central Bank of Myanmar |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The entire face is covered by an intricate multicolour guilloche underprint in shades of red, violet, and olive-green, with concentric wave patterns radiating from the centre. The Burmese numeral '၅၀' and Arabic numeral '50' are rendered in large figures at centre, overlaid on the guilloche field. 'FIFTY PYAS' is inscribed at the top and 'CENTRAL BANK OF MYANMAR' along the lower margin, with ornamental guilloche panels bordering the left and right edges. |
| Reverse lettering | FIFTY PYAS ၅၀ ပြား 50 PYAS CENTRAL BANK OF MYANMAR (Translation: Fifty Pyas 50 Pyas 50 Pyas Central Bank of Myanmar) |
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The Security Printing Works at Wazi — Myanmar's state-owned facility established in the 1970s to reduce dependence on foreign printers — handled the entire SLORC and early SPDC-era note series, this 50 Pyas included. Bringing production fully in-house was a deliberate policy under military government, not a cost calculation.
The Pya denominations issued through the 1990s circulated heavily in markets but were chronically understocked relative to inflation, making small-change transactions genuinely difficult at street level.