Catalog
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan |
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| 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.