The National Emblem of Bangladesh (a water lily bordered on two sides by rice sheaves and a three-leaf clover of tea leaves above and four stars representing the four principles of the first constitution of Bangladesh in 1972: nationalism, secularism, socialism, and democracy)
Obverse script
Obverse lettering
Reverse description
A gear, a swing plow and a tractor pulling a plow with the country name above and the denomination above the date to the right and the face value below
Reverse script
Bengali
Reverse lettering
বাংলাদেশ
৫
১৯৯৪
পাঁচ পয়সা (Translation: Bangladesh 5 1994 Five Poisha)
Edge
Smooth
Mint
Mintage
1977 - ১৯৭৭; Royal Canadian Mint - 90 000 000 1978 - ১৯৭৮; Royal Canadian Mint - 52 432 000 1979 - ১৯৭৯; Royal Canadian Mint - 120 096 000 1980 - ১৯৮০ - 127 008 000 1981 - ১৯৮১ (Never Minted) - 72 992 000 1994 - ১৯৯৪ -