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5 Kyats
| Issuer | Central Bank of Myanmar |
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| Year | 1996-1997 |
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| Value | 5 Kyats |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a group of six male players engaged in chinlone, the traditional Burmese cane-ball sport, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a concentric oval guilloche underprint in brown and green. A floral rosette numeral "5" medallion in teal and red occupies the upper left corner, while a decorative vertical panel with a repeated numeral motif runs along the right margin. The issuer's name appears in a ruled panel at the top and the denomination in English is inscribed in a separate panel at the foot of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Myanmar's Security Printing Works came under the direct authority of the military government — the State Law and Order Restoration Council had renamed the country from Burma in 1989, and by the mid-1990s the central bank was firmly subordinate to SLORC's economic directives. The 5 Kyat denomination had limited practical purchasing power by this point; chronic inflation and a vast gap between the official exchange rate and the black-market rate had already gutted the lower denominations.
A print run just over twelve million is modest for a circulating low-value note, suggesting this issue was never intended as a workhorse denomination. Watermark security only — no security thread, no color-shifting ink.