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500 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1982-1995 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries, at right, an intaglio vignette of the Star Mosque (Tara Masjid) in Armanitola, Dhaka, rendered within an oval frame and showing its ornate multi-domed facade with characteristic Chinitikri mosaic decoration. At left, a guilloche underprint surrounds a central vignette of a hand holding a sheaf of wheat, with Bengali inscriptions and the denomination পাঁচ শত টাকা above; the issuer's title বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক appears at top in Bengali script alongside the numeral 500 at upper left and lower right corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed intaglio vignette of the front facade of the High Court building in Dhaka, set within a decorative frame with guilloche patterned borders. The denomination and issuer's name appear in English lettering across the note. |
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The 500 Taka is the highest denomination Bangladesh Bank issued during this period, and the thirteen-year print run across P#30 variants tracks the progressive tightening of security specifications — from a plain solid thread under Nurul Islam's signature to segmented foil strips by the time Khorshed Alam's name appears. That shift mirrors a broader regional response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting operations active across South Asia through the late 1980s and into the 1990s.
G&D's Leipzig facility handled the work throughout, one of the longer continuous supply relationships the printer maintained in the subcontinent during this period.