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1/4 Anna - Umaid Singh
| Issuer | Princely state of Jodhpur |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1751-1945) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a Persian/Urdu legend in Nasta'liq script arranged across the field in multiple registers, recording the mint name, regnal year, and denomination. The inscription is deeply struck but shows characteristic softness at the margins due to the hand-operated minting technique employed at the Jodhpur mint. Decorative pellets are interspersed among the letterforms, consistent with the stylistic conventions of Jodhpur princely copper coinage of the mid-twentieth century. |
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| Mintage | 2000 (1943) |
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Jodhpur's copper coinage of the early 1940s was struck under Umaid Singh, who ruled from 1918 until his death in 1947 — just weeks after Indian independence, which he did not live to see formalized. The princely state maintained its own mint authority throughout his reign, issuing coins that circulated alongside British Indian currency in a patchwork monetary arrangement common to the roughly 560 princely states that survived into the independence period.
By 1943, wartime metal pressures had already forced changes to coinage composition across British India proper. That Jodhpur continued striking copper fractions at this date reflects the administrative distance the larger princely states maintained from crown directives.