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| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1997-1998 |
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| Reference(s) | P#33 |
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| Obverse lettering | বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক চাহিবার মাত্র ইহার বাহককে দশ টাকা দিতে বাধ্য থাকিবে (Translation: Bangladesh Bank is bound to pay the bearer of this ten taka) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Bangladesh Bank issued several distinct 10 Taka designs through the 1990s, and the P#33 belongs to a period when the series was being quietly consolidated — earlier issues in the same denomination had run into problems with counterfeiting, prompting gradual upgrades to paper specification even when the security feature suite itself changed little on the surface. The watermark on this series is embedded in the paper rather than applied, which was not universal across all Bangladeshi issues of the decade.
Circulation wear on P#33 examples tends to concentrate along the horizontal fold lines, reflecting how notes of this size were habitually stored folded in thirds in the regional trade context.