Catalog
500 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 2003-2008 |
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| Value | 500 Taka |
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| Obverse description | The National Monument at Savar is shown at right, with the Sat Gambuj Mosque vignette at centre; the mosque, located in the Mohammadpur area on the northwestern outskirts of Dhaka, is a notable example of 17th-century provincial Mughal architecture. Fine guilloche underprint patterns frame the central design elements. |
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| Variants | P#45a - 2003 P#45b - 2004 P#45c - 2005 P#45d - 2005 P#45e - 2006 P#45f - 2007 P#45g - 2008 serial # at lower right in Bengali numerals P#45h - 2008 serial # at lower right in Western numerals |
| Comments |
Bangladesh Bank introduced this note during a period when the 500 taka denomination carried real purchasing weight — roughly equivalent to several days' wages for an unskilled worker at the time of issue. The series ran through multiple signature varieties as governor appointments changed, making signature identification the primary tool for dating individual specimens within the 2003–2008 window.
The security thread is a plain embedded type rather than a windowed or colour-shifting strip, a specification that was already considered modest by international standards when the note entered production.