Coins from Pakistan
Pakistan (Urdu: پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population of 215 million people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
The Founder of the country is Muhammad Ali Jinnah. “Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.” - Stanley Wolpert.
The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was the site of several ancient cultures and intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent. The ancient history involves the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans and Sikhs. The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Alexander III of Macedon, the Seleucid Empire, the Indian Maurya Empire, the Gupta Empire, the Arab Umayyad Caliphate, the Delhi Sultanate, the Mongol Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Afghan Durrani Empire, the Sikh Empire (partially) and, most recently, the British Empire. Pakistan is the only country to have been created in the name of Islam. Therefore the word “Pakistanism” is coined as a neologism that refers to the continual division of any society along religious lines. It is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country, with a similarly diverse geography and wildlife. Initially a dominion, Pakistan adopted a constitution in 1956, becoming an Islamic republic. An ethnic civil war and Indian military intervention in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh. Pakistan has the sixth-largest standing armed forces in the world and is also a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state.
Wikidata: Q843
See also: India - British
Rupee (1948-1960)
3 Pies = 1 Pice • 4 Pices = 1 Anna • 16 Annas = 1 Rupee
½ Anna (Crescent opens to right) 1948-1951
Copper-nickel • 2.9 g • ⌀ 19.8 mm
KM# 2, Schön# 2, N# 4636
½ Anna (Crescent opens to left; Mint Sport) 1949-1951
Pattern
Copper-nickel • 2.9 g • 19.8 mm
N# 114354
1 Anna (Crescent opens to left) 1949-1952
Copper-nickel • 3.7500 g • ⌀ 21 mm
KM# 8, Schön# 8, N# 19830
2 Annas (Crescent opens to right) 1948-1951
Copper-nickel • 5.8 g • ⌀ 25.4 mm
KM# 4, Schön# 4, N# 7644
Rupee (decimalized, 1961-date)
100 Paisa = 1 Rupee
1 Paisa (FAO) 1974-1979
Circulating commemorative coin: F.A.O.
Aluminium • 0.75 g • ⌀ 17 mm
KM# 33, Schön# 35, Y# 26, N# 3123
2 Paisa (FAO) 1974-1976
Circulating commemorative coin: FAO
Aluminium • 1 g • ⌀ 19.5 mm
KM# 34, Schön# 36, Y# 27, N# 5201
5 Paisa (FAO) 1974-1981
Circulating commemorative coin: F.A.O.
Aluminium • 1.25 g • ⌀ 21 mm
KM# 35, Schön# 37, Y# 28, N# 5202
10 Paisa (FAO) 1974-1981
Circulating commemorative coin: F.A.O.
Aluminium • 1.6 g • ⌀ 22 mm
KM# 36, Schön# 38, Y# 29, N# 5203
The Numista referee for coins of this issuer is Haseeb78.
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