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5 Kyat KM#61 coin uncirculated
Weight 2.90g Brass size 20mm

In Burma, coins are even used nowadays for the preparation of traditional headgears, jackets and belts.
Burmese traditional clothes richly decorated with coins are mostly exported all around the world.

Every day, hundreds, even thousands coins are drilled and sewn on the fabric of these traditional dresses. Vintage Burmese coinage disappears daily since decades.

Making it, the quotation of the coins of Burma and Myanmar does not stop increasing, and it becomes harder and harder to get it, even in Burmese villages.

The most coins practically disappeared, particularly old mintage Burmese coinage dating from 1949 till 1966, minted by India at the time of the English dominion.

In our opinion all coins of Burma and the Republic of Myanmar will reach very high quotations in the near future.

Valuable catalogs do not seem to take into account this ethnic phenomenon, about traditional fashion and the coinage prices mentioned do not really correspond with rarity, especially if we take into account the low mintage of Burmese coins with regard to the low population of Burma, 48 millions Burma is now named Myanmar.

Finally, considering the ceaseless inflation in Burma and Myanmar, coins are not used by the population. It’s the same for banknotes and postal stamps.

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