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50 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Size | 153 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a pastoral vignette of a tea garden in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh, illustrating rows of cultivated tea bushes extending across a rolling landscape, representative of one of the country's principal export commodities. The composition is framed by guilloche border work, with the denomination and issuing bank name inscribed in English and Bengali script. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Bangladesh Bank's early post-independence note issues were contracted to Thomas De La Rue almost by necessity — the country had no domestic security printing capacity following the 1971 Liberation War, and establishing one took years. This 1976 50 Taka falls within that first generation of outsourced production, a period when the young central bank was still working out the basic mechanics of a national currency system from scratch.
The watermark remains the sole security feature — modest by any measure, but consistent with De La Rue's output for newly sovereign states operating on tight post-conflict budgets.