1 Rupee Pattern

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.