Catalog
20 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Sixty Dome Mosque (Shat Gombuj Moshjid) in Bagerhat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest surviving mosque in Bangladesh from the Bengal Sultanate period, constructed under Ulugh Khan Jahan in the fifteenth century. The architectural composition is rendered with careful detail, surrounded by a decorative guilloche border and underprint in characteristic colours. Denomination numerals and inscriptions in Bengali appear at left and right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Bangladesh Bank introduced a redesigned 20 Taka series in the early 2010s as part of a broader effort to standardize security features across lower denominations, which had lagged behind the higher-value notes in anti-counterfeiting provisions. The watermark on this issue is relatively modest by contemporary central bank standards — a reflection of production cost constraints rather than any oversight.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a transcription error and should be verified against the note itself before any attribution is relied upon.