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1 Taka
| Issuer | Government of Bangladesh |
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| Year | 1973-1976 |
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| Currency | Taka (1972-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a hand firmly grasping a sheaf of rice plants, rendered in intaglio against a blue-grey guilloche border with ornamental corner rosettes and the numeral '১' (1) at each corner. A decorative golden-ochre underprint of stylised floral motifs occupies the right-centre field, with the denomination in large Bengali script above the Financial Secretary's manuscript signature and the title অর্থসচিব below. |
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| Signature(s) | watermark: Tiger's head - Matiul Islam (3-1973) watermark: Tiger's head - Kafiluddin Mahmood (1974-1975) without watermark - Kafiluddin Mahmood (10-1976) |
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Bangladesh declared independence in March 1971, but the new government's currency infrastructure took time to establish. The 1 Taka notes of this series were issued by the Government rather than Bangladesh Bank — a deliberate distinction, as small-denomination notes in the subcontinent have historically been treated as government instruments rather than central bank liabilities, a convention inherited directly from British India.
Three signature varieties exist, tracking two successive Finance Secretaries across a compressed four-year window. The 1976 variety dropped the watermark entirely — a production change whose precise rationale is undocumented but which makes that issue straightforwardly distinguishable from its predecessors.