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50 Paise
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1972-1973 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Reverse script | Devanagari/Latin |
| Reverse lettering | पैसे PAISE 50 1973 |
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The shift to copper-nickel for this issue came as part of India's broader post-decimalization rationalization of the coinage system, which had been restructured in 1957 but took well into the 1970s to fully stabilize metallurgically. The 1972–73 dates fall within a period of significant monetary pressure following the 1971 war with Pakistan and the economic strain of absorbing roughly ten million refugees from what became Bangladesh.