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1 Rupee Pattern 1966
| Issuer | Pakistan |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Bengali, Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a symmetrical bilingual layout centered on a spray of jasmine flowers, the national flower of Pakistan. The denomination 'One Rupee' appears in Bengali script at the center top and in Urdu script at the center bottom. The subsidiary denomination '100 Paisa' is inscribed in Urdu script to the center left and in Bengali script to the center right, framing the central floral motif. |
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Pakistan's transition away from the subcontinental rupee coinage inherited at Partition was a slow and politically charged process. This 1966 pattern represents part of the design evaluation preceding the decimalization of Pakistan's currency, which was finalized in 1961 — meaning this piece was struck some five years after the new system was already in place, suggesting ongoing experimentation with the one-rupee denomination's physical specification or design rather than a pre-reform trial.