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5 Taka
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Size | 138 x 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক চাহিবা মাত্র ইহার বাহককে পাঁচ টাকা দিতে বাধ্য থাকিবে গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকারের নিশ্চয়তা প্রদত্ত |
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| Protection description | Watermark area visible as blank oval reserve on obverse; typical Bangladesh Bank watermark of the issuing period. |
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| Comments |
The P#46A belongs to a series that went through repeated design revisions in the 2000s as Bangladesh Bank worked to tighten security specifications on its lower denominations — a response to persistent counterfeiting pressure on notes that circulated heavily in rural markets. The 5 Taka occupies a denomination kept deliberately in paper form long after higher values migrated to polymer, partly due to cost sensitivity in high-volume rural distribution.
A watermark-only security package on a note of this circulation intensity is notably thin by the standards of its era, and worn examples are far more common than intact ones.