K5 — Five Kyat
The artwork
Front: General Aung San in military tunic, three-quarter view, set in a dense oval of blue and violet guilloche work that fills the whole left half. The Burmese title of the Union of Burma Bank runs across the top in a green panel; the denomination in Burmese script sits in the middle field, with a red serial number above it and a Burmese numeral 5 in each side cartouche.
Back: A stand of toddy palms — the fan-leaved Borassus of the dry central plains, with a climber's ladder lashed to one trunk — rises against a broad field of engraved lathe-work. Over it a large ghosted 5 carries the words FIVE KYATS. Below, UNION OF BURMA BANK in English, with the bank's name in Burmese in a small oval at the left.
In circulation
Part of the Union of Burma Bank series that carried Aung San's portrait through the 1970s and into the 1980s. It was overtaken by the later Union of Burma Bank issues of the mid-1980s, and after 1989 by Central Bank of Myanmar notes, which dropped Aung San's likeness altogether.
Details
- IssuerUnion of Burma Bank
- CurrencyKyat (K)
- DenominationFive Kyat
- Collectedon the Burma journey, 2001
- SeriesAung San portrait issue, 5 Kyats
- SecurityRed serial number with Burmese-character prefix