^Lot 1383 BRITISH INDIA: Edward VII, 1901-1910, 1/2 anna, 1908

BRITISH INDIA: Edward VII, 1901-1910, ½ anna, 1908, KM-Pn96, Pridmore-73, pattern struck in copper-nickel, crowned bust right / value and date within quatrefoil, value in Urdu and Nagri in outer angles, Uncirculated. In 1908 a substitute for the heavy Victorian copper ½-Anna coinage was considered, but no ½-Anna was to be struck for circulation until 1942, when a square, not scalloped, design was selected.