1/2 Paisa - Tipu Sultan Patan mint

Tipu Sultan overhauled Mysore's entire coinage system after taking the throne, introducing a new calendar, new mint names, and new weight standards simultaneously — a administrative rupture with both Mughal convention and his father Hyder Ali's issues. The Patan mint, one of several he operated across his kingdom, struck copper low-denomination pieces primarily to supply local bazaar commerce in the southern territories.

These were minted during the years bracketing the Third Anglo-Mysore War, when Tipu's treasury was under sustained pressure from British campaign costs and the 1792 Treaty of Seringapatam ultimately forced him to cede half his territories and pay a war indemnity of over three crore rupees.