Catalog
10 Rupees
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1951-1970 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic vignette of the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore occupies the central field, rendered in fine intaglio line work with formal terraced gardens, cypress trees, and Mughal pavilions receding into the background. The State Bank of Pakistan circular seal appears to the right, while Urdu numerals and the denomination in large Nastaliq script are set in the lower portion against a guilloche underprint. The bank title in Urdu occupies the upper cartouche, flanked by corner numerals in both Eastern Arabic and Western Arabic forms. |
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| Obverse lettering | بینک دولت پاکستان دس روپے |
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Pakistan's earliest banknote series — including this 10 Rupee — was issued under considerable urgency. At Partition in 1947, the new State Bank inherited no printing infrastructure and initially circulated overprinted Reserve Bank of India notes. The De La Rue-printed series that followed represented the first purpose-designed currency for the country, though the long issue window of nearly two decades means examples span a wide range of signatories and can carry quite different collector premiums depending on which governor's signature appears.
P#13 is catalogued across multiple signature varieties. The earliest are substantially scarcer.