50 Taka

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.