Currency Today : Pakistan 04

The series of Pakistani banknotes contintue with 50 rupees.
As in all Pakistani notes, 

50 rupees-note of Pakistan

some of the notes 2013-2017

On the 2012, 13 and 14-notes we see signature 1 in the above picture,
on the 2015, 16 and 17-notes we see signature 2 in the above picture
In the newest note of 2018, another signature appears :

new signature from 2018 on

At the back side, we see K2 peak in Karakorum Mountains, between Pakistan and China.

50 rupees - reverse side

For a long time, this mountain had no real name, as it was out of sight for the local habitants of the region. When Colonel Thomas George Montgomerie measured the area in 1856, he numbered the mountains as he discovered them.

The K stands for Karakoram area, the 2 for the second mountain he discovered/measured.

Montgomerie’s , numbering K1, K2, … was later on replaced by real names:

K1 : Masherbrum

K2 : remained K2

K3 : Broad Peak

K4 : Gasherbrum II

K5 : Gasherbrum I

For those who need good questions for a quiz event, K2 is known as : Mount Godwin-Austen, Lamba Pahar (Long Mountain in Urdu), Qogir  Feng or even Chogori Dapsang.

In Balti language, the mountain is named ‘Ketu’, which is the local way to say K2.

The fact that K2 is also the second hightest mountain in the world, is rather a coincidence.
K2 is considered as the most difficult mountain to conquer, and has a death rate of 25%.

K2 - mountain