Currency Debate: Metal or Paper or Internet?


Every country even the 194th nation, carved out of Sudan, has its own currencies no matter all of them are beautiful or not. Bangladesh has altogether nine banknotes and seven coins. Bangladesh Bank (BB) has the sole authority to issue banknotes. Central banks the world over change the design of banknotes from time to time. The BB has so far issued notes in the denominations Taka 1000.00, 500.00, 100.00, 50.00, 20.00, 10.00, 5.00, 2.00, 1.00 and coins of Taka 5.00,2.00 1.00, 0.50, 0.25, 0.10, 0.05, 0.01 totalling Taka 1696.91 only. All of them are not beautiful. All of them are not good-looking but the two taka note is the best among the local notes. Continue reading