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| Issuer | India - British |
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| Year | 1908 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Arabic/Devanagari |
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Pattern issues for British India were typically struck at the Royal Mint in London or the Calcutta Mint, and 1908 falls within a period of active re-evaluation of the fractional anna series — the colonial administration was weighing proposals to replace the existing copper coinage with a lighter, cheaper alternative. White metal patterns from this period represent trial strikes in aluminum or a tin-based alloy, produced to test the visual and mechanical viability of a potential redesign that ultimately did not advance to circulation.