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50 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears an intaglio-style vignette of women engaged in tea leaf harvesting within the terraced gardens of the Sylhet region, illustrating one of Bangladesh's principal agricultural export industries. Denomination numerals and bilingual inscriptions in Bengali and English are integrated within a guilloche underprint border. |
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| Protection description | Bangladesh Bank emblem watermark, visible when the note is held to light. |
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| Comments |
Bangladesh Bank's relationship with Thomas De La Rue began at independence and continued through the late 1970s, when London-printed notes were gradually being phased out in favor of locally produced issues from the Security Printing Corporation in Gazipur. This 1979 note falls near the end of that transition window — De La Rue retained the contract for higher denominations longer than for smaller ones, partly due to the security feature requirements the domestic facility couldn't yet meet consistently.
Pick 23 is occasionally found with ink adhesion issues along the intaglio-printed text, a known characteristic of certain De La Rue runs from this period on humid-climate-destined stock.