1 Rupee 1949 Pattern Series

India's post-independence coinage transition was anything but smooth. The 1949 pattern series was struck as the new government worked through competing proposals for a distinctly Indian monetary identity — one that shed British iconography without disrupting the infrastructure of a mint system still largely inherited from colonial administration. Several competing designs were evaluated before the final rupee type was settled, and pattern pieces like this one document that decision process directly.

KM# P100 never reached circulation.