1 Rupee - Edward VII Straits Settlements Pattern Mule, Modernised (2nd) Style

This piece is a pattern mule — a deliberate pairing of two dies not intended for circulation — produced during the systematic effort to update British Indian coinage under Edward VII. The "modernised second style" designation places this among a series of trial strikings that tested revised portrait punches against existing or experimental reverse dies, in this case borrowed from Straits Settlements coinage rather than standard Indian issue. Such cross-authority mules were not accidents; the Royal Mint used them to evaluate compatibility of die geometry and depth across related colonial series.

Seaby-Wilkes 7.10 documents only a handful of confirmed examples.