Pakistan Coinage: 2008-2012
under President: Asif Ali Zardari
 
Currency:  Rupee = 100 Paisa
 
2008
 
Before 2008, there was not a single President or Prime Minster's portrait on any coin of Pakistan. The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait was firstly introduced on his 100th Birthday on 1976 coins. Later it was continuously struck on one Rupee coins from 1998 onwards. Our national poet Allama Muhmamad Iqbal's portrait was also only introduced on his 100th Birthday on 1977 coins. Later the government of Pakistan wanted to continuously struck his portrait on 50 paisa coin in 1998 but due to inflation this coin was not introduced. Later his portrait was suggested on five Rupees coins from 2001 onwards, but was also not accepted. Some specimen of Allama Muhammad Iqbal five Rupees coins can be seen on my website. Nevertheless after a great debate among the government officials, Benazir Bhutto's 10 Rupee was introduced with her portrait on 10 Rupee coin this year, making her more important than other politicians, martyr soldiers, sport persons, etc.
 

KM#67 1 Rupee. Year: 2008. Weight: 1.75g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 20.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait facing left in the center. "اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکِستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu written at the right side anti-clockwise. "قائد اعظم محمد علی جناح" [Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader) Muhammad Ali Jinnah] written at the left side anti-clockwise. Date at the bottom.
Reverse: Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Mausoleum, Sehwan Shareef [located in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan] in the center. Value "1" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: 97,953,000. Minted Years: 2007-2008 (Large head type).

Note: Thicker date than the above coin.

Note: Extended border on obverse side. Smaller and thinner date. Different smaller image of Muhammad Ali Jinnah than 2007-2008 type.

Minted Years: 2008-2016 and 2018-2020 (Small head type).

KM#68 2 Rupees. Year: 2008. Weight: 2.62g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 22.50 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore.

Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom.

Reverse: Badshahi Mosque at Lahore in the center with three thick clouds above it. Value "2" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: N/A (Rare) Minted Years: 2007-2016 and 2018-2020.

Note: Rare coin. Hard to find.

KM#69 10 Rupees. Year: 2008. Weight: 8.25g. Metal: Copper-Nickel (Cu=75% + Ni=25%). Diameter: 27.50 mm. Edge: Reeded. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore.

Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Value "10" written at the right side and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the left side. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom.

Reverse: "دُخترِ مشرق محترمہ بینظیر بھٹو شہید" (Daughter of the East, Benazir Bhutto, the Martyr) written at top. Benazir Bhutto portrait facing 2/3 left in the center. Year "1953" written on the left side and "2007" on the right side. Mintage: 300,000. Minted Years: One year type. Issued Date: December 26, 2008 [on the occasion of first death anniversary of the Former Prime Minister: Benazir Bhutto. This coin was issued during Asif Ali Zardari's (Benazir Bhutto's widower) presidential rule].

Note: The above coin is also made in Aluminum as pattern with double thickness, plain edge and have weight of 3.64 grams. These Aluminum coins were firstly reported in November 2009.

Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀُٽو‎; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 02 December 1988 – 06 August 1990 and again from 19 October 1993 – 05 November 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination on 27 December 2007. She is Of mixed Sindhi and Kurdish parentage. She was born in Karachi to a politically important, wealthy aristocratic family. Her father, the PPP's founder and leader Zulfikar Ali, was elected Prime Minister on a socialist platform in 1973. Zulfikar Ali was ousted in a 1977 military coup and executed.
On the morning of 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In the afternoon, she gave a speech at a PPP rally held in Rawalpindi's Liaquat National Bagh. On leaving in a bulletproof vehicle, she opened the car's escape hatch and stood up to wave to the surrounding crowds. A man stood within two to three metres of the car, fired three gunshots at her, and detonated a suicide vest packed with ball bearings. Bhutto was fatally injured; reports differ as to whether she was hit by bullets or by shrapnel from the explosion. Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital but was clinically dead on arrival and attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful. No autopsy was conducted, and the body was swiftly transported to Chaklala Air Base. The following day, she was buried next to her father in the Bhutto family mausoleum, Garhi Khuda Baksh, her family graveyard near Larkana. PPP supporters rioted in various parts of Pakistan.

Same as above coin, but having die cracks and rotated as shown.

Weight: 8.15g.

10 Rupees. Year: 2008. Weight: 160.60 grams. Metal: Bronze plated copper. Diameter: 85.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Value "10" written at the right side and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the left side. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom. Reverse: "دُخترِ مشرق محترمہ بینظیر بھٹو شہید" (Daughter of the East, Benazir Bhutto, the Martyr) written at top. Benazir Bhutto portrait facing 2/3 left in the center. Year "1953" written on the left side and "2007" on the right side. Mintage: N/A Minted Years: One year type. Pattern (Specimen) coin for presentation purpose.

Note: Image size reduced to 50%

10 Rupees. Year: 2008. Weight: 160.60 grams. Metal: Brass plated copper. Diameter: 85.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Value "10" written at the right side and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the left side. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom. Reverse: "دُخترِ مشرق محترمہ بینظیر بھٹو شہید" (Daughter of the East, Benazir Bhutto, the Martyr) written at top. Benazir Bhutto portrait facing 2/3 left in the center. Year "1953" written on the left side and "2007" on the right side. Mintage: N/A Minted Years: One year type. Pattern (Specimen) coin for presentation purpose.

Note: Image size reduced to 50%

 
2009
 

KM#67 1 Rupee. Year: 2009. Weight: 1.75g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 20.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait facing left in the center. "اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکِستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu written at the right side anti-clockwise. "قائد اعظم محمد علی جناح" [Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader) Muhammad Ali Jinnah] written at the left side anti-clockwise. Date at the bottom.
Reverse: Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Mausoleum, Sehwan Shareef [located in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan] in the center. Value "1" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: 80,280,000. Minted Years: 2008-2016 and 2018-2020 (Small head type).

Note: Different image of Muhammad Ali Jinnah than 2007-2008.

Same as above coin but the word "Ju" in Jumuriyat (Republic) is missing. Thin date.

Same as above coin but the word "Muhammad" is very weakly struck and seems missing.

Seems that the obverse side is deliberately removed.

KM#68 2 Rupees. Year: 2009. Weight: 2.60g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 22.50 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom.
Reverse: Badshahi Mosque at Lahore in the center with three thick clouds above it. Value "2" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: 100,000,000. Minted Years: 2007-2016 and 2018-2020.

Same as above coin but the reverse side is slightly off-flan and rotated.

KM#70 10 Rupees. Year: 2009. Weight: 8.25g. Metal: Copper-Nickel (Cu=75% + Ni=25%). Diameter: 27.50 mm. Edge: Reeded. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: “اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان” (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Date above the wreath. Denomination "10" on the left side and  “روپیہ ” (Rupees) in Urdu written at the right side separated by Crescent and star. A circle of sixty small beads is all along the edge of the coin. Reverse: 60th Anniversary of People's Republic of China (written in Urdu above). Pak-China Friend Forever (written in Urdu below). Year "1949" on the left and Year "2009" on the right, separated by China and Pakistan flags with hands shaking in the center. Mintage: 100,000. Minted Years: One year type. Issued Date: 01st October 2009. To Express Solidarity And Unity With The Peoples Republic of China on its 60th Anniversary.

Pakistan's Rs.10 commemorative coin on China's 60th anniversary: To express the solidarity and unity with the Peoples Republic of China on historic occasion of 60th anniversary of its founding on 01 October 2009,  The Government of Pakistan has decided to issue 10 rupees commemorative coin in the quantity of 100,000 (One hundred thousand) pieces from State Bank of Pakistan, through SBP banking services corporation (Bank) w.e.f October 2009, according to a statement of Finance Division (Internal Finance Wing).
Highlighting the dimension, design and composition of the coin, the statement said that denomination of the coin will be Rs.10, metal composition will be Cupro-Nickel, copper 75 percent, Nickel 25 percent with white colour.
The shape, dimension and design of the coin will be round with serration on the edge and a diameter of 27.25 grams.
About obverse, it said that the waxing crescent moon and a five pointed star facing North-West in rising position, is in the center on the obverse side of the coin. Along with periphery on the top of the crescent star is inscribed in wording Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Urdu script. Below the crescent and at the top sprigs of wheat with arms curved upward, there is the year of issuance 2009. The face value of the coin in numeral “10” in bold letters and Rupee in Urdu script are written on the right and left sides of the crescent star respectively. A circle of sixty small beads is all along the edge of the coin.
About Reverse, in the center of the reverse of the coin bears flags of the both countries, showing hand shaking and inscribed wording “Sixty years celebrations of the Independence of People's Republic of China" at the upper and “Pak-Cheen dosti Zindabad” meaning “Longlive Pakistan-China friendship” at the lower side in Urdu script along with the periphery. On the left and right sides insignia, the year of P.R. China establishment and year of its 60th anniversary respectively are in numeral wording inscribed. A circle of sixty small beads is all along the edge of the coin. The existing Rs.10 banknotes will continue to the legal tender and will remain in circulation along with Rs.10 coins. The remedy allowed in the making thereof shall not be exceeding 1/40th by weight.

Note: The above coin is also made in Aluminum as pattern with double thickness, plain edge and have weight of 3.64 grams. These Aluminum coins were firstly seen in public in November 2009.

 
 
2010
 

KM#67 1 Rupee. Year: 2010. Weight: 1.75g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 20.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait facing left in the center. "اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکِستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu written at the right side anti-clockwise. "قائد اعظم محمد علی جناح" [Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader) Muhammad Ali Jinnah] written at the left side anti-clockwise. Date at the bottom.
Reverse: Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Mausoleum, Sehwan Shareef [located in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan] in the center. Value "1" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: 100,000,000. Minted Years: 2008-2016 and 2018-2020 (Small head type).

Note: Different image of Muhammad Ali Jinnah than 2007-2008.

Same as above coin but thicker date.

KM#68 2 Rupees. Year: 2010. Weight: 2.60g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 22.50 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom.
Reverse: Badshahi Mosque at Lahore in the center with three thick clouds above it. Value "2" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: 5,337,000. Minted Years: 2007-2016 and 2018-2020.

Same as above coin but rotated as shown.

Same as KM#68 dated 2010 but off flan and larger in size.

Weight: 2.59g. Diameter: 23.5 mm.

 

 
2011
 

KM#67 1 Rupee. Year: 2011. Weight: 1.75g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 20.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait facing left in the center. "اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکِستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu written at the right side anti-clockwise. "قائد اعظم محمد علی جناح" [Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader) Muhammad Ali Jinnah] written at the left side anti-clockwise. Date at the bottom.
Reverse: Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Mausoleum, Sehwan Shareef [located in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan] in the center. Value "1" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: N/A Minted Years: 2008-2016 and 2018-2020 (Small head type).

Same as above coin but thicker date.

KM#68 2 Rupees. Year: 2011. Weight: 2.60g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 22.50 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom.
Reverse: Badshahi Mosque at Lahore in the center with three thick clouds above it. Value "2" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: N/A Minted Years: 2007-2016 and 2018-2020.

KM#71 20 Rupees. Year: 2011. Weight: 9.63g [9.50g]. Metal: Copper-Nickel (Cu=75% + Ni=25%). Diameter: 29.50 mm. Edge: Reeded. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: “اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان” (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Denomination "20" on the right side and  “روپیہ ” (Rupees) in Urdu written at the left side separated by Crescent and star. Date above the wreath. A circle of sixty small beads is all along the edge of the coin. Reverse: "2011 YEAR OF PAK CHINA FRIENDSHIP" written at the top section. "60th" written in center with hand shaking below it. Dates "1951-2011" written at the  bottom. A circle of sixty small beads is all along the edge of the coin. Mintage: 100,000. Minted Years: One year type. Issued: 21st May 2011.

Note: To express solidarity, unity and perpetual friendship with the Peoples Republic of China. The delegation of both countries met for the first time in May 1951.

KM#72 20 Rupees. Year: 2011. Weight: 9.62g [9.50g]. Metal: Copper-Nickel (Cu=75% + Ni=25%). Diameter: 29.50 mm. Edge: Reeded. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: “اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان” (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Denomination "20" on the right side and  “روپیہ ” (Rupees) in Urdu written at the left side separated by Crescent and star. Date above the wreath. Reverse: "150th YEAR CELEBRATIONS  LAWRENCE COLLEGE GHORA GALI MURREE" written around the top section of the college emblem and Motto: "NEVER GIVE IN". Mintage: 100,000. Minted Years: One year type. Issued: 28th May 2011.

Note: The actual 150th years of Lawrence College Ghora Gali was in year 2010 and four different stamps of 8 Rupees each were also produced the same year. This coin was promised by the PM Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani on 150th Founders Day on a ceremony held on 07th Oct 2010 but the coin came late, dated 2011.

 
2012
 

KM#67 1 Rupee. Year: 2012. Weight: 1.75g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 20.00 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait facing left in the center. "اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکِستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu written at the right side anti-clockwise. "قائد اعظم محمد علی جناح" [Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader) Muhammad Ali Jinnah] written at the left side anti-clockwise. Date at the bottom.
Reverse: Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Mausoleum, Sehwan Shareef [located in Jamshoro District of Sindh, Pakistan] in the center. Value "1" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: N/A Minted Years: 2008-2016 and 2018-2020 (Small head type). Slightly rotated reverse side as shown.

KM#68 2 Rupees. Year: 2012. Weight: 2.60g. Metal: Aluminum. Diameter: 22.50 mm. Edge: Plain. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Lahore. Obverse: "اسلامی جمهوریه پاکستان" (Islamic Republic of Pakistan) in Urdu script written at the top. Crescent and star facing left in the center. Date above wheat wreath at the bottom.
Reverse: Badshahi Mosque at Lahore in the center with three thick clouds above it. Value "2" and "روپیہ" (Rupee) written at the bottom. Mintage: N/A Minted Years: 2007-2016 and 2018-2020. Slightly rotated reverse side as shown.
 
 
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