1 Anna - Man Singh II

Man Singh II was the last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur before the state's accession to India in 1949, but by 1943 he was already operating under the considerable constraints of a British Resident. Jaipur retained the right to issue coinage — one of the jealously guarded privileges of the larger princely states — and continued doing so through the war years, though the shift to brass from earlier copper issues reflects wartime metal pressures felt across the subcontinent.

KM#186 is among the final anna-denomination coins struck in Jaipur's own name before independent monetary authority became moot.