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100 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1983-2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, a vignette of the Star Mosque (Tara Masjid) in Dhaka's Armanitola area, rendered in fine line engraving; the structure is distinguished by its ornate domes covered in Chinitikri-style mosaics of blue stars crafted from shards of Chinese porcelain, with floral rosettes and geometric patterns decorating the façade. The mosque, built in the first half of the 19th century by Mirza Golam Pir (Mirza Ahmed Jan), is one of the few surviving examples of this distinctive mosaic architectural tradition. Bengali and English inscriptions appear alongside the central guilloche underprint. |
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| Signature(s) | Nurul Islam solid security thread without microprinting Shegufta Bakth solid security thread without microprinting Shegufta Bakth microprinted solid security thread Khorshed Alam microprinted solid security thread Khorshed Alam segmented security thread without microprinting Lutfor Rahman Sarker segmented security thread without microprinting Mohammed Farashuddin segmented security thread without microprinting Lutfor Rahman Sarker microprinted wide segmented security thread Mohammed Farashuddin microprinted wide segmented security thread Mohammed Farashuddin microprinted solid foil security thread |
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The extended signature run on this series — spanning from Nurul Islam through Mohammed Farashuddin across roughly seventeen years — tracks the evolution of Bangladesh Bank's security thread program in real time. Early issues carry a plain solid thread; later printings progress through microprinted solid, segmented, and finally wide segmented and solid foil variants. The same pick number covers all of them, which makes signature and thread combination the primary tool for sequencing individual examples within the type.
Production shifted at some point during the series from De La Rue in London to the Security Printing Corporation in Gazipur, Bangladesh — the latter established in 1988 specifically to reduce the country's dependence on foreign security printers.