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5 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1972-1976 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of industrial buildings flanked by two sailing boats on water, with jute leaves in the background and the Bangladesh Bank logo above. The design is printed in multicolour with a guilloche underprint, and the denomination and issuer name appear in both Bengali and English. |
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| Protection description | Roaring Royal Bengal tiger. |
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Bangladesh declared independence in March 1971, but the new state's first banknotes weren't issued until 1972 — the currency infrastructure had to be built from nothing while the country was still recovering from one of the deadliest conflicts of the twentieth century. Bradbury Wilkinson, a well-regarded British security printer with deep experience across former Commonwealth territories, was a logical first choice for a new central bank without domestic printing capacity.
P#13 circulated across two distinct signature combinations, reflecting early staff turnover at Bangladesh Bank during its formative years. The watermark is the sole security feature — modest by later standards, but typical of the constraints on a newly sovereign issuer placing its first printing contracts abroad.