10 Rupees Haj Note

Pakistan issued dedicated Haj notes — a parallel currency usable only in Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage — to control foreign exchange outflows. Pilgrims could not legally take standard Pakistani rupees abroad, so these notes functioned as a controlled scrip, redeemable for Saudi riyals on arrival and theoretically returned or cancelled after the Haj season ended.

Printed domestically by the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation rather than contracted to a foreign security printer, P#R3 is one of the earlier issues in this Haj series. The system itself ran for decades, making this 1967–1971 window the formative period before the scheme was tightened further under 1970s foreign exchange regulations.