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1/2 Anna - Victoria Pattern
| Issuer | India - British |
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| Year | 1877-1893 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Kolkata / Calcutta / Murshidabad, India (1757-date) Mumbai / Bombay, India(1829-date) |
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Pattern coins struck for official review rather than circulation, this gold half anna belongs to a series of trial pieces produced during the transition following the Royal Titles Act of 1876, which formally proclaimed Victoria Empress of India. The "Kaiser-i-Hind" title created immediate pressure on the Calcutta and Bombay mints to update coinage dies across all denominations, generating a flurry of pattern submissions through the late 1870s and into the 1880s.
Gold patterns of this denomination are extraordinarily rare survivals — most official Indian patterns were melted after rejection or retained in government collections. The sixteen-year date range itself signals this was never formally adopted.