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1/2 Pice - Edward VII
| Issuer | Government of British India |
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| Year | 1904-1910 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1770-1947) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The half pice occupied the lowest rung of the British Indian monetary system — four to the pice, itself a fraction of the anna — and was struck primarily to facilitate bazaar trade where even the smallest price differential mattered. Edward VII's Indian issues were administered through the Bombay and Calcutta mints, both operating under the Indian government's direct authority rather than the Crown's, a bureaucratic distinction that occasionally complicated die approval timelines between London and the subcontinent.
Circulation losses for this denomination were extraordinarily high; the coins were frequently lost, hoarded in tiny quantities, or melted informally.