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100 Rupees
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan (overprinted for Bangladesh) |
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| Year | 1957-1967 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with an intaglio portrait vignette of Muhammad Ali Jinnah at centre, framed by ornate guilloche borders. Urdu inscriptions appear across the top and lower registers, with the denomination rendered in Urdu at lower left. A double overprint in Bengali script and Roman lettering reading 'BANGLADESH' appears diagonally across the face, along with a Bengali denomination overprint, marking this as a trial issue prepared during the 1971 transition period. |
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| Reverse lettering | STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN এক শত টাকা ONE HUNDRED RUPEES বাংলাদেশ BANGLADESH |
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When East Pakistan unilaterally declared independence in March 1971, the new state of Bangladesh had no currency infrastructure of its own. As a stopgap, existing State Bank of Pakistan notes were overprinted with "Bangladesh" to legitimize them for continued circulation during the transitional period — a measure that was always intended to be temporary and was replaced once the Bangladesh Bank could issue its own series.
The overprint arrangement makes provenance critical. Unoverprinted examples of this Pakistani series are common; the Bangladesh overprint is what gives P#3D its collector relevance. Authentication matters here — the overprint has been forged.