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.Pakistan Mint is at
Suknahare, Pakistan Mint stop near Shalimar Gardens, Lahore. It is responsible
to mint circulating coins for Pakistan since 1948. |
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In the beginning coins were struck under the direction of Bernard
Sinclair-Jones O.B.E., Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in India, at
Calcutta until 1943 and later at Lahore until 1947. Sinclair-Jones
played a major part in the introduction of nickel coinage into India (M.B.E),
and at the time of the Japanese invasion of Burma, he was solely
responsible (the Master of the Mint being ill), for the removal of the
Calcutta Mint to the relative safe place at Lahore (O.B.E). The coins were two of a total
six pairs of pattern Rupee prepared in 1947 prior to the commencement of
coinage for the newly independent Republic of Pakistan. Neither of the
designs was adopted and when Sinclair-Jones left Pakistan during the
turmoil of the 1947-48 riots, the four sets were lost and their present whereabouts is unknown. |
| Bernard Sinclair-Jones' career in India was full of incident, more so
than would be expected for a Deputy Master. A well respected member of
the society, he owned the first motor car in Calcutta, and later built
his own aero plane. He declined the offer of a two year contract as
Master of the Pakistan Mint and retired in 1948 to Kent after a lifetime
of service in the sub-continent. |
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The State Bank on Pakistan was inaugurated on 01st
July 1948. At the same time British Indian coins were replaced with newly
designed coin bearing the name "Government of Pakistan". |
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coins came by surprise to me that a Mint which is producing coins for West
Pakistan (modern day Pakistan having an area of 880,940 kmē) and East
Pakistan (now Bangladesh having an area of 143,998 kmē) is having a different
design / alternative coins used in their small canteen in late 1960s. The
reason on minting Pakistan Mint Canteen coins seems probably or the first
thing that comes / clicks in our mind in that the mint authorities were
trying to avoid people from stealing Pakistani coins stocked, stored or
freshly prepared from the mint. Therefore alternative coins were produced
for them for their usage in the mint canteen. These employee might also be
frequently checked with metal detection devices to avoid theft as well.
Anyhow some of these mint canteen coins manage to make their way out of the
Pakistan Mint to collectors. |
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I got
my 1 Anna (1/16 Rupee) ND Copper-Nickel coin from Haroon Tareen and 1 Rupee ND
Nickel-Brass coin from Dawar Ali Shah. According to my information, Pakistan
Mint has also produced FAO coins for Saudi Arabia under King Faisal reign in
1972. |
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Chiefa Coins |
