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.
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.