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5 Paisa
| Issuer | Government of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1961-1963 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Arabic/Bengali |
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Pakistan's shift to nickel brass for this denomination in 1961 reflected a broader Commonwealth-era trend of replacing cupro-nickel with cheaper alloys as base metal costs rose in the late 1950s. The three-year production window is short enough that surviving examples in circulation grades are less common than catalog abundance might suggest — the issues were struck in modest quantities relative to the population's transactional needs at the time.