1/2 Paisa - Ranbir Singh

Ranbir Singh ruled Jammu and Kashmir from 1857 to 1885, yet coinage struck in his name continued to circulate and be re-issued well into the twentieth century under the Dogra administration — a bureaucratic inertia common to the princely states, where updating coin dies was a low priority against the backdrop of British India's own currency dominance. By the 1920s, these small copper fractionals served purely local exchange in rural markets where British Imperial coinage rarely penetrated in small enough denominations.