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5 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1972-1976 |
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| Value | 5 Taka |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at right, set against a light green guilloche underprint with a central vignette of shapla (water lily) flowers and foliage. The denomination পাঁচ টাকা (Five Taka) is printed in large red Bengali script at centre, with the issuer's name in Bengali at the top and the Governor's signature below left. Ornate geometric border frames the entire note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANGLADESH BANK FIVE TAKA (Translation: BANGLADESH BANK FIVE TAKA) |
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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.