BURMA

Pick#....................64
Banknote Book # 1009a
Denomination ....45 Kyat
Date.....................1987
Condition............AU/XF - usual staple holes & some rust stains
Comments…...... Series prefix BS.  Worker's leader Pho Hla Gyi in uniform -  the most celebrated nationalist leader Burma has ever known on front. Oil workers, oil field with derricks on reverse. Watermark: General Pho Hla Gyi. (2nd image).  

Printer: Security Printing in Wazi, set up by Giesche & Deverient.

Kyat =  round and flat. 

It was rumored that the odd denomination  was chosen because the ruler General Ne Win believed in numerology, the mystical relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things.  The whole set of odd numbered notes were demonetized only 13 months later.  There was no exchange provisions for these notes, representing 75% of the country's currency!  The owners simply lost their total value.  Image is not exact note in lot.

NEVER A RESERVE !!

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CURRENCY DEN

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