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100 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 100 Taka |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, an intaglio portrait vignette of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975), founding father of Bangladesh and known by the honorific 'Bangabandhu' (Friend of Bengal). To the right, a vignette of the Sixty Dome Mosque (Shait Gambuj Mosque) in Bagerhat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest surviving mosque of the Bengal Sultanate period, built by Ulugh Khan Jahan. Guilloche underprint patterns frame the design, with denomination numerals and Bengali and English inscriptions appearing in the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Bangabandhu (Jamuna Multi-purpose) Bridge, which spans the Jamuna River and connects Bhuapur on the east bank to Sirajganj on the west bank; opened in June 1998, it was among the longest bridges in the world at the time of construction. The design is set against a guilloche underprint, with the denomination value rendered in Bengali numerals and lettering, flanked by ornamental borders. |
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Bangladesh Bank introduced a redesigned 100 Taka series in the early 2000s as part of a broader effort to standardize security features across higher denominations following documented counterfeiting pressure on the preceding issues. P#37 is the 2001 dated version within that series, distinguished from closely related picks primarily by signature combinations — a detail that trips up collectors who don't cross-reference the signatory pairings against the correct catalog entries.
Watermark-only security on a 100 Taka note was already considered minimal by 2001 international standards, with neighboring central banks having moved to security threads years earlier.