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1 Rupee Pattern
| Issuer | Government of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Weight | 11.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Urdu |
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| Mintage | 1952 |
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Pakistan's first post-independence coinage was a prolonged bureaucratic negotiation — the country continued using undivided British India issues well into the early 1950s while authorities debated alloy choices, denominations, and imagery acceptable under Islamic convention. This 1952 copper-nickel pattern represents one of several trial strikes submitted during that evaluation period, before the eventual circulating rupee settled on a lighter specification.
Patterns from this phase rarely escaped the mint formally; most examples in collections today trace back to government archives or early numismatic acquisitions made through Karachi contacts in the 1950s and 1960s.