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5000 Rupees
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan |
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| Year | 2006-2023 |
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| Printer | Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC), Pakistan |
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| Obverse lettering | بینک دولت پاکستان پانچ ہزار روپے حامل ہذا کو مطالبہ پر ادا کریگا حکومت پاکستان کی ضمانت سے جاری ہوا اشرف و قمر گورنر بینک دولت پاکستان |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, rendered in fine intaglio line work with the Margalla Hills visible in the background; the four towering minarets frame the distinctive tent-shaped prayer hall. The legend STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN is inscribed in bold letterpress at the top, with the large numeral 5000 in intaglio at upper right and the English denomination FIVE THOUSAND RUPEES along the lower margin. The left border carries an ornamental column of floral guilloche work in red alongside the State Bank of Pakistan seal, while vertical Urdu lettering identifies the architectural subject. |
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The 5000 Rupee note was introduced in 2006 as Pakistan's highest denomination, a decision that reflected cumulative inflation rather than economic confidence — the rupee had lost roughly 95% of its value against the dollar since independence. Its introduction was controversial; the State Bank faced criticism that a note of this size would facilitate corruption and black-market cash hoarding, arguments that resurface periodically in Pakistani monetary policy debates.
Printed entirely domestically by PSPC at Karachi, the series runs an unusually long continuous date range, with the security feature specification remaining essentially unchanged across nearly two decades of issue — notable given how aggressively other central banks updated their high-value note security during the same period.