Catalog
1 Rupee - George VI
| Issuer | Government of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1948-1960) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and carries at left a circular coin vignette bearing the inscription 'ONE RUPEE INDIA 1940' surrounded by a floral border, with the denomination 'ONE RUPEE' in English repeated below. The central panel presents the denomination in multiple Indian scripts arranged in horizontal bands, with 'GOVERNMENT OF INDIA' at top centre. A decorative guilloche border frames the entire note, and a plain rectangular panel at right is reserved for the watermark field, surmounted by the royal cypher 'GRI' in the upper corner. |
| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ONE RUPEE INDIA 1940 ONE RUPEE 1 |
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Pakistan's first banknote issue came not from a Pakistani printer but from the Security Printing Corporation of India in Nasik — a consequence of Partition's chaos, in which newly independent Pakistan had no printing facilities of its own and was forced to negotiate use of the subcontinent's only established security press. The arrangement was politically awkward from the start.
These notes were essentially the British India 1 Rupee with overprints and modified text asserting Pakistani authority. The George VI designation places this firmly in the pre-republic period, before Pakistan became a republic in 1956.