1/8 Rupee - George V [Muhammad Sa'adat Ali Khan]

Tonk was the only princely state in Rajputana with a Muslim ruling dynasty, a consequence of the Pindari leader Amir Khan's 1817 treaty with the British East India Company, which converted his irregular cavalry command into a recognized principality. Muhammad Sa'adat Ali Khan's reign in the 1930s was administratively unremarkable, but coinage struck under dual authority — naming both the reigning nawab and the British sovereign — reflects the precise constitutional fiction of paramountcy that governed some 560 such states. This fractional silver issue would have seen minimal circulation given its size.