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100 Kyats
| Issuer | Union of Burma Bank |
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| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of General Aung San in three-quarter profile, wearing traditional Burmese dress and gaung baung headwear, set against an ornate floral guilloche background. A central panel carries the denomination in Burmese script within a fine engine-turned guilloche frame, with the numeral 100 rendered in the upper left corner. The note displays a multicolour underprint in pink and green tones, with the English legend ONE HUNDRED KYATS running along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a saung gauk (traditional Burmese arched bow harp) rendered in intaglio, its curved neck, resonating body and tasselled strings depicted with fine detail against a multicolour wave-pattern guilloche underprint in green, pink and blue tones. To the left, a large circular rosette guilloche medallion provides a decorative counterpoint, while to the right a second ornate circular medallion frames the numeral 100. The issuer's name and denomination appear in the upper border, with ONE HUNDRED KYATS in letterpress along the lower margin. |
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The Union of Burma Bank replaced the People's Bank of Burma as the sole issuing authority following the 1975 restructuring of Burma's state banking system under Ne Win's socialist government. This 100 Kyat note belongs to the series introduced shortly after that reorganization — a bureaucratic rebranding more than a monetary reset, with the underlying currency framework unchanged.
The Kyat had been a closed currency since 1964, when all foreign exchange transactions were nationalized and private banking abolished. Notes from this period circulated in an economy where parallel black-market rates routinely dwarfed the official rate by a factor of ten or more.