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2 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Post Office |
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| Type | Cheques |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on white paper with central bilingual title in Bengali and English reading BANGLADESH POSTAL ORDER. Two dark vignette value tablets at centre display the numeral 2 in Bengali and Roman script flanking the words দুই টাকা. A rosette ornament appears at lower left and a circular postal seal at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned reverse carrying five numbered paragraphs of conditions of use printed in Bengali script. A bold Bengali notice at foot advises the remitter to complete the payee details before transfer. A faint circular cancellation stamp appears at lower left. |
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Bangladesh Post Office notes are a genuine oddity in South Asian notaphily. The postal authority issued low-denomination notes as a workaround during severe coin shortages in the early years after independence — small change simply wasn't reaching circulation in sufficient quantities, and the Post Office had the infrastructure to distribute substitutes through its counter network nationwide.
Printed domestically by the Security Printing Press in Gazipur, these notes circulated hard and wore out fast. Survivors in any presentable condition are harder to find than their modest face value suggests.