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1/2 Anna - Edward VII Pattern
| Issuer | India - British |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Shape | Scalloped (with 12 notches) |
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| Reverse lettering | INDIA 1 AN NA 2 1908 |
| Edge | Plain |
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Pattern coinage for British India in this period was driven by the colonial government's persistent search for a harder-wearing substitute for the pure copper that dominated small-denomination circulation. Copper-nickel had already proven itself in other British colonial territories by 1908, and the India Office was under pressure to reduce minting costs for the highest-volume denominations. Edward VII died in May 1910, meaning this particular pattern never advanced to an adopted type under his effigy.
The switch to copper-nickel for the Anna series would not actually occur until the George V issues of the 1940s — decades after patterns like this one had been quietly shelved.