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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| Reverse lettering | STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN দশ টাকা TEN RUPEES |
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| Protection description | Crescent and star watermark |
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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.