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1 Taka World Cup Soccer
| Issuer | Bangladesh |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Bengali |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Bengali |
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Bangladesh issued this coin ahead of the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in the United States — the first World Cup staged outside Europe or the Americas' traditional footballing heartlands, and the tournament that still holds the all-time attendance record. For Bangladesh, a nation with no history of World Cup qualification, the issue was purely commemorative in the export market sense, produced for collector sale rather than any domestic circulation purpose.
The .925 silver specification places it squarely in the standard proof commemorative format that flooded the market in the early 1990s, when dozens of smaller nations licensed World Cup imagery from FIFA to generate foreign exchange revenue.