P.39 The rarest banknote after independence
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Many people discuss on the Internet that the 1952 8Pe coin is the rarest after Burma’s independence, calling it “the king of Burma coins”. So who is “the king of Burma paper money”? If I had to choose, I would choose the second set 5 rupee notes—P.39. It is the least top 3 in the prefix number, and it is also the least in the number of notes found on the Internet. The following table shows the information of the first to third sets of banknotes, and each prefix has 6 digits notes.
| Version | Year | Denomination | SCWPM Number | Number of Prefix found | Number of notes found |
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| 1st set | 1948 | 1R 5R 10R 100R |
P.34 P.35 P.36 P.37 |
124 47 50 4 |
285 143 239 50 |
| 2nd set (Rupee) | 1952 | 1R 5R 10R 100R |
P.38 P.39 P.40 P.41 |
38 5 18 1 |
81 21 107 85 |
| 3rd set (Kyat) | 1952 | 1K 5K 10K 100K |
P.42 P.43 P.44 P.45 |
186 56 89 8 |
451 204 264 264 |
Start from the fourth set, each prefix has 7 digits notes. Since there are many prefix and number found on the Internet, and nothing special, so only the graded is counted; except for the sixth set P.60, because many people love and collect, the table shows the real number counted instead of the number of graded. Start from the eighth set, Burma changed its English name to Myanmar. At and after this set, it is no longer the focus of my study. There is only little unimportant data, my blog posts will not discuss it.
| Version | Year | Face Value | SCWPM Number | Number of Graded Found |
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| 4th set (with hat) | 1958 | 1K 5K 10K 20K 50K 100K |
P.46 P.47 P.48 P.49 P.50 P.51 |
26 13 22 17 32 94 |
| 5th set (without hat) | 1965 | 1K 5K 10K 20K |
P.52 P.53 P.54 P.55 |
21 21 40 14 |
| 6th Set | 1972-1979 | 1K 5K 10K 25K 50K 100K |
P.56 P.57 P.58 P.59 P.60 P.61 |
91 66 83 59 1781 52 |
| 7th set | 1985-1987 | 15K 35K 45K 75K 90K |
P.62 P.63 P.64 P.65 P.66 |
110 17 20 23 30 |
Precautions:
- The number of grades is the number of graded banknotes found, including PMG, old PCGS, new PCGS, ICG…etc.
- Grading companies have their own grading population. This blog posts only provide the numbers of graded found on the Internet, the aim is to express the data in another way and act as a reference.
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The total number of P.60 found, including those that were graded. ↩︎