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5 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Size | 120 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left, a fish vignette serves as an underprint element; at centre, the Shapla (water lily), national flower of Bangladesh, is rendered as a decorative motif. At right, a vignette of the Star Mosque (Tara Masjid) of Armanitola, Dhaka, illustrates the structure's characteristic blue-star Chinitikri mosaic domes. Bengali inscriptions identifying the Bangladesh Bank and the denomination run across the face, with the Governor's name and title appearing below. |
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| Obverse lettering | বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক চাহিবা মাত্র ইহার বাহককে পাঁচ টাকা দিতে বাধ্য থাকিবে গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশদেশ সরকারের দায়িত্বে প্রবর্তিত নাজিরুদ্দিন আহমদ গভর্নর (Translation: BANGLADESH BANK FIVE TAKA NAZIRUDDIN AHMED GOVERNOR) |
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Bangladesh Bank's early series was printed by Thomas De La Rue throughout the 1970s, a common arrangement for newly independent states lacking domestic printing infrastructure. Bangladesh had only formally established its central bank in 1972, less than a year after the Liberation War ended, so outsourcing to De La Rue was as much a matter of institutional capacity as security.
Naziruddin Ahmed served as Governor during a period of acute economic instability — the 1974 famine had devastated the country, and inflation had badly eroded confidence in paper currency at lower denominations. The 5 Taka note circulated hard and survivors in anything above Fine are not common.