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2 Paisa 12-sided type
| Issuer | Pakistan |
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| Year | 1968-1974 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | পাকিস্তান সরকার حکومت پاکستان (Translation: Government of Pakistan) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pakistan's shift to aluminium for the 2 Paisa reflected acute pressure on the country's metal supply during a period of sustained economic strain following the 1965 war with India. The twelve-sided format, adopted to aid identification by touch among a largely illiterate rural population, followed a practical design philosophy also applied across several other low-denomination Pakistani issues of the period.
Production ran through the Bangladesh crisis and its aftermath — a rupture that cost Pakistan roughly half its population overnight when East Pakistan separated in 1971.