Catalog
10 Rupees
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan (People's Republic of Bangladesh) |
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| Year | 1972-1975 |
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| Value | 10 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | Green and lilac note with a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in three-quarter view at left, wearing a karakul cap, set against a fine guilloche underprint. A floral vignette in pink appears at centre-right, flanked by bilingual inscriptions in Bengali and Urdu scripts. Red Bangladesh provisional overprint stamps appear at centre and lower right, applied over the original Pakistani text. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green intaglio, the reverse carries a large panoramic vignette of a formal Mughal-style garden with a grand architectural complex in the background, flanked by tall cypress trees and ornate flowerbeds. Intricate guilloche borders frame all four sides, with numeral 10 counters at each corner and an arabesque medallion at right. The English inscription TEN RUPEES appears at the bottom centre, with STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN at the top. |
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When Bangladesh declared independence in March 1971, it had no central bank, no currency infrastructure, and no time. Pakistani rupee notes already in circulation continued to be used out of necessity, and the new government's interim solution was to overprint existing State Bank of Pakistan stock — including notes printed for but not yet issued by Pakistan — with "Bangladesh" markings. The P#3B series belongs to this transitional moment: rupee-denominated notes issued under Bangladeshi authority before the taka was introduced and the rupee was demonetized in 1973.
The issuing credit line naming the State Bank of Pakistan was never corrected on the printed face, which has caused persistent cataloging confusion.