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10 Kyats
| Issuer | Union Bank of Burma |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Third kyat (1952-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Bogyoke Aung San (1915–1947), Burma's national independence hero, at centre, flanked by a Chinthe mythical lion-guardian as a symbolic motif. Burmese script inscriptions identify the issuing authority and denomination, all contained within an ornate guilloche border frame. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a working elephant hauling a large teak log under the guidance of a mahout seated on its back, rendered against a forest background in fine engraved linework. Denomination numeral "10" appears in ornate cartouches at each corner, with elaborate acanthus-scroll guilloche borders framing the composition, and the legend "TEN KYATS" inscribed in the lower field. |
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Burma's 1958 issue came three years after the country's first post-independence monetary reorganization, when the Union Bank assumed full central banking functions from the earlier State Commercial Bank structure. Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is worth noting — the firm had printed Burmese notes since the early independence series and maintained that contract through several successive governments, a relationship that persisted despite Burma's increasingly non-aligned political posture under U Nu.
P#48 is the single-watermark security variant; collectors should distinguish it carefully from the related series issues, as catalog conflation is common with this decade's Burmese output.