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1/2 Paisa - Tipu Sultan Patan mint
| Issuer | Mysore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1771-1794 |
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| Value | 1/2 Paisa (1⁄512) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Tipu Sultan's coinage reform was among the most systematic undertaken by any Indian ruler of the 18th century — he introduced a new calendar, new coin names, and new weight standards simultaneously, breaking deliberately from Mughal monetary conventions his father Hyder Ali had largely followed. The Patan mint served the northern territories of Mysore, and its output reflects the administrative ambition of a ruler who controlled perhaps the most efficient revenue apparatus in peninsular India during the 1780s.
Tipu's death at Seringapatam in May 1799 ended production abruptly. The British immediately suppressed his coinage.