5 Taka

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.