1/2 Paisa - Jafar Ali Khan

Cambay's coinage authority was already an anachronism by 1907 — the princely state on the Gulf of Khambhat had been under effective British paramountcy for decades, with its nawabs retaining the right to strike copper small change largely as a courtesy. Jafar Ali Khan's tenure was administratively uneventful, the state too small and commercially absorbed into British Gujarat to exercise meaningful independent policy. These copper fractionals were struck for local bazaar use and saw hard circulation, which is why survivors in any decent condition are genuinely scarce.