Catalog
10 Rupees
| Issuer | Government of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1948-1951 |
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| Reference(s) | P#6 |
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| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN TEN RUPEES |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Pakistan's first banknote series was issued under the Government of Pakistan rather than a central bank — the State Bank of Pakistan didn't open until July 1948, and even then the government retained direct note-issuing authority for these early denominations. The notes were effectively a sovereign declaration printed in London before the new state had fully assembled its own financial institutions.
Thomas De La Rue supplied the entire inaugural series, a practical choice given the urgency of partition — Pakistan needed circulating currency within weeks of independence in August 1947.