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2 Rupees

Issuer State Bank of Pakistan
Year 1985-1999
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Size 110 × 60 mm
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Obverse lettering بینک دولت پاکستان
دو روپیے
مالک اِنہا کو مطالبہ پر ادا کریگا
حکومت پاکستان کی ضمانت سے جاری ہوا
بینک دولت پاکستان
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Reverse lettering بینک دولت پاکستان
دو روپیے
STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN
TWO RUPEES
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Pakistan's 2 Rupee denomination has a peculiar administrative history: by the mid-1980s the note was largely redundant in everyday commerce, inflation having eroded its practical utility to near nothing, yet the State Bank continued issuing it through the late 1990s — a bureaucratic inertia not uncommon in South Asian central banking of the period. The P#37 series spans fourteen years across multiple signature varieties, reflecting successive Finance Secretary and Governor pairings that allow reasonably precise dating of individual specimens.

Watermark-only security on this late-issue low denomination was already obsolete by regional standards when the series began.