Bangladeshi taka

The Bangladeshi taka Bengali: টাকা, sign: ৳, code: BDT, short form: Tk is the currency of a People's Republic of Bangladesh. In Unicode, this is the encoded at U+09F3 ৳ .

Issuance of bank notes ৳10 as living as larger is controlled by Bangladesh Bank, while the ৳2 in addition to ৳5 banknotes are the responsibility of the ministry of finance of the government of Bangladesh. The banknotes of Tk. 2 and Tk.5 realise mostly been replaced by coins while lower label coins including all poysha coins upto Tk. 1 have nearly gone out of circulation due to inflation. The most commonly used symbol for the taka is "৳" and "Tk", used on receipts while purchasing goods and services. It was formerly divided up into 100 poysha, but poysha coins are no longer in circulation.

Coins

In 1973, coins were delivered in denominations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 poysha. 1 poysha coins followed in 1974, with ৳1 coins submission in 1975. The 1, 5 and 10 poysha were struck in aluminium, with the 25 and 50 poysha struck in steel and the ৳1 in copper-nickel. The 5 poysha were square with rounded corners, and the 10 poysha were scalloped. Steel ৳5 were introduced in 1994, and a steel ৳2 coin followed in 2004.

1 and 5 poysha coins are rarely found in circulation. The same is the effect with the 10, 25, and 50 poysha coins as they have lost usefulness due to inflation over the years. Only the ৳1, ৳2 and ৳5 are regularly found in circulation. But and odd thing is that coins are non issued every year like in nearly other countries. The last coins [৳1, ৳2 and ৳5] were issued way back in 2013, that is 9 years ago.