5 Taka

Bangladesh Bank's earliest note series was produced under considerable pressure — the country had existed for barely two years when this note entered circulation, and the institutional infrastructure for issuing currency was still being built from scratch. The 1972 taka series (Pick 1–6) relied entirely on De La Rue, which had printed Pakistani notes prior to partition and was the only practical choice for a new central bank with no domestic printing capacity.

A. N. Hamid Ullah served as Secretary of the Finance Division, not as Governor — his signature appearing on these early notes reflects the temporary administrative arrangements during Bangladesh's first years of monetary independence. K. G. Mustafa is one of the very few designers from this foundational series to receive a credit at all.