1/2 Rupee - George VI

By 1946, the colonial rupee coinage was already operating on borrowed time. The August 1947 transfer of power meant these final George VI issues straddled two political realities — struck under British authority yet circulating freely into independent India and Pakistan, both of which continued using pre-partition coinage for years while their own monetary infrastructure was established. The Bombay and Calcutta mints produced this type concurrently, and mint mark placement on the reverse remains the standard method of attribution between the two facilities.