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5 Paise with Devanagari legend
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1967-1971 |
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| Weight | 1.6 g |
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| Obverse description | The Ashoka Lion Capital (Sarnath capital), the national emblem of India, depicted in high relief at the centre of the field, showing three lions sejant addorsed atop an abacus featuring the Dharma Chakra (wheel) flanked by a bull and a horse in low relief. The legend 'भारत' in Devanagari script appears to the left and 'INDIA' in Latin script to the right, both running along the inner border. The coin is framed by a decorative milled beaded border following the square-with-rounded-corners planchet shape. |
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| Reverse description | Large numeral '5' dominates the central field, with the denomination in Devanagari script 'पाँच पैसे' (Five Paise) inscribed below. A curved Devanagari legend 'रुपये का बीसवाँ भाग' (one-twentieth of a rupee) arcs along the upper portion of the field. The date appears in Arabic numerals at the base, with the mint mark positioned beneath it between the beaded border segments. A decorative milled beaded border frames the entire reverse following the coin's distinctive square planchet with rounded corners. |
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The shift to aluminium for this denomination was driven by chronic metal shortages and the rising cost of the cupronickel alloys used in earlier issues — by the mid-1960s, the intrinsic value of the smaller coins was uncomfortably close to their face value. The Devanagari legend variant replaced the earlier bilingual design as part of a broader push toward Hindi primacy in official government materials, itself a politically contentious move that sparked the anti-Hindi agitation protests of 1965 in Tamil Nadu, leaving the coinage reform caught in the crossfire of language politics.