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50 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Printer | The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd. (দি সিকিউরিটি প্রিন্টিং কর্পোরেশন (বাংলাদেশ) লিমিটেড), Bangladesh (1988-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (National Parliament Building), Louis Kahn's monumental modernist complex in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination and issuing authority appear in both Bengali and English, with guilloche underprint patterns filling the surrounding field. The numeral '50' is printed in the lower corners against a multicolour background. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Bangladesh established its own security printing facility in Gazipur in 1988, ending decades of dependence on foreign presses — primarily the British American Banknote Company and later Thomas De La Rue — that had handled Bangladeshi currency since independence in 1971. This 1999 note was among the earlier issues to be produced entirely in-country, and the shift in print quality relative to the earlier De La Rue-produced series is detectable under close inspection.
Watermark-only security is notably sparse for a denomination of this value by late 1990s international standards, when most comparable issuers had moved to security threads and color-shifting ink.