Catalog
1 Taka
| Issuer | Government of Bangladesh |
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| Year | 1973-1976 |
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| Size | 100 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | The Bangladesh National Emblem — a water lily (shapla) rising above stylised waves, flanked by rice sheaves and surmounted by three connected jute leaves with four stars — rendered as an intaglio vignette within a dotted circular frame at right-centre, set against a two-tone underprint of pale blue and golden-ochre guilloche. Bengali script lettering of the issuer's name runs along the top border and the denomination appears in a solid panel along the lower edge, with the numeral '1' in each corner cartouche. |
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| Signature(s) | watermark: Tiger's head - Matiul Islam (3-1973) watermark: Tiger's head - Kafiluddin Mahmood (1974-1975) without watermark - Kafiluddin Mahmood (10-1976) |
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Bangladesh declared independence in March 1971, but the new government's currency infrastructure took time to establish. The 1 Taka notes of this series were issued by the Government rather than Bangladesh Bank — a deliberate distinction, as small-denomination notes in the subcontinent have historically been treated as government instruments rather than central bank liabilities, a convention inherited directly from British India.
Three signature varieties exist, tracking two successive Finance Secretaries across a compressed four-year window. The 1976 variety dropped the watermark entirely — a production change whose precise rationale is undocumented but which makes that issue straightforwardly distinguishable from its predecessors.