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1/2 Anna Crescent opens to right
| Issuer | Government of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1948-1951 |
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| In circulation to | 1960 |
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| Obverse description | Central field features an ornate tughra-style calligraphic device in Arabic script, rendered in elaborate interlaced strokes, flanked on either side by a sprig of laurel or wheat, with the two sprigs meeting at the base of the design. The legend GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN arcs across the upper portion of the field in Latin capitals, with two small five-pointed stars serving as decorative stops on either side. The date appears in Arabic-European numerals below the legend. A beaded inner border follows the square-with-rounded-corners flan. |
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| Mintage | 1948 - - 73,920,000 1948 - Mint Sets (KM#MS1) - 1948 - Proof Sets (KM#PS1) - 5,000 1949 - no dot after date - 1949 . - dot after date - 16,940,000 1951 - - 75,360,000 |
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Pakistan's first coinage, issued after the 1947 partition, was struck at the Calcutta and Lahore mints while the new state scrambled to establish independent monetary infrastructure. The Lahore Mint — inherited from British India — was the only facility on Pakistani soil at independence, and early production was supplemented by Calcutta strikes before that arrangement became politically untenable.
The crescent orientation was used as a deliberate differentiator between die varieties, with the open-right pieces catalogued separately from their counterparts. Both circulated concurrently.