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1 Rupee no Urdu on reverse
| Issuer | Government of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1981-1982 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an intaglio vignette of the Mausoleum of Allama Mohammad Iqbal in Lahore, rendered in brown, positioned to the left of centre against a lightly coloured background with a decorative guilloche panel to the right. The denomination numeral '1' appears at lower left, and the English inscription 'ONE RUPEE' is lettered at the base of the note. The heading 'GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN' is printed across the top in English. |
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| Protection description | Crescent and star watermark |
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The "no Urdu on reverse" designation marks a printing anomaly within the P#25 series — the Urdu text normally present on the back was omitted, producing a variant distinct enough to list separately. Whether this resulted from a plate error or a deliberate short-run modification at the Karachi facility has never been definitively documented.
By 1981, the 1 Rupee note was already an anachronism in practical terms, with coins handling nearly all transactions at this denomination. The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation continued producing it regardless, as official policy kept paper notes in the mix far longer than circulation demand justified.