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5 Rupees Pattern

Issuer Pakistan Mint, Lahore
Year 2001
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Shape Round
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Reverse description Central field depicts a detailed three-quarter perspective view of a large modernist public building, identified as the Parliament House or a significant government edifice, rendered with fine architectural detail including multi-storey facade, glazed upper storey, and palm trees in the foreground. The denomination numeral '5' appears at the lower left, accompanied by the Urdu legend 'روپے' (Rupees) to its right, forming the value inscription in the lower field. A beaded inner rim frames the entire design.
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Mint Pakistan Mint, Lahore
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Pakistan's 5 rupee circulation coinage had already been established in cupro-nickel by the late 1990s, making a 2001 pattern in the same alloy unusual — patterns in matching composition typically indicate a proposed design revision rather than a metals trial. Whether this piece preceded a rejected redesign or was struck for archival and presentation purposes remains undocumented in published Pakistani mint records.

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