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5 Rupees Trial Strike 1

Issuer State Bank of Pakistan
Year 2002
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Arabic/Latin
Obverse lettering اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان
2002
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Trial strikes produced for the State Bank of Pakistan's currency committee reviews rarely escaped the approval process into collector hands, making documented survivors genuinely uncommon rather than artificially scarce. The 2002 five-rupee program ultimately moved forward with a cupro-nickel composition rather than copper, which is precisely what makes this piece interesting — it represents a material path that was formally rejected.

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