New Currency Note: CBM To Issue Five Hundred Kyats Currency Note On 19th July

The Central Bank of Myanmar is making arrangement to issue various types of new current notes with the pictures of Bogyoke Aung San.

It announced on Thursday that it will issue five hundred kyats new currency note on 19th July 2020. With the picturesque of Bogyoke Aung San, the banknote is 150 mm long and 70 mm wide.

The prominent colour of the five hundred kyats currency note is maroon, at the upper part of the note, the “CENTRAL BANK OF MYANMAR” is printed. On the front page of the banknote, the picturesque of Bogyoke Aung San is printed and the value of the note “500 Kyats in Myanmar language is inserted on the right side of the note. 5

00 kyats is also printed in the remaining three corners of the note. The note bears the watermark image of Bogyoke Aung San is inserted on its left side.

The security string is inserted from top to bottom. It also said that the existing five hundred Kyats note which is in circulation will continue to be legal tender currency.