Catalog
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1984-2006 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 2022 |
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| Obverse lettering | Urdu text `B` (Translation: State Bank of Pakistan Ten Rupees) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
P#39 ran for over two decades with only minor modifications — an unusually long lifespan for a circulating note of this denomination, and a direct reflection of the low pace of reform at the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation during the 1980s and 1990s. The 10-rupee note occupied a heavily used position in everyday transactions, and surviving examples in anything above well-worn condition are not especially common for the earlier dated issues.
The single watermark security feature places this squarely in a pre-modern security regime — PSPC did not introduce more sophisticated elements to lower denominations until well into the 2000s.