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1 Anna - George VI
| Issuer | Government of British India |
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| Year | 1938-1940 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1770-1947) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned effigy of King George VI facing left, wearing the Imperial State Crown with detailed ornamentation, rendered in moderate relief. The portrait, engraved by Percy Metcalfe, presents the King in a restrained, unadorned style with a plain truncation at the base of the neck. The circular legend GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR runs along the periphery of the scalloped flan, with GEORGE VI to the left and KING EMPEROR to the right. The field is smooth and unadorned, drawing full attention to the royal portrait. |
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| Mintage | 1938 - Calcutta Mint - 7,128,000 1938 - Calcutta Mint; Proof - 1938 • - Bombay Mint - 3,126,000 1939 - Calcutta Mint - 18,192,000 1939 • - Bombay Mint - 36,157,000 1940 - Calcutta Mint - 60,945,000 1940 • - Bombay Mint - |
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The shift to copper-nickel for this denomination came with the 1938 coinage reform, which retired the older bronze issues as British India rationalized its fractional currency ahead of wartime metal pressures. Within two years, those same pressures would force further changes — the war made copper-nickel increasingly strategic, and the series was short-lived almost by design.