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1 Paisa
| Issuer | Hyderabad-Shorapur Feudatory |
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| Year | 1840-1850 |
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| Reference(s) | C#63, Zeno cat#11159 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the Bahiri (or Bagiri) symbol, rendered as two opposing curved bands forming a bow-tie or hourglass-shaped device, surrounded by a field of raised pellets arranged in a scattered pattern around the central motif. The design is contained within an irregular beaded border consistent with the hammered production technique of this feudatory series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shorapur was a small princely state in the Deccan whose ruling Nayak dynasty maintained considerable autonomy under the Nizam of Hyderabad. That relationship ended violently — following the 1857–58 uprising, the British annexed Shorapur directly after Raja Venkatappa Nayaka was implicated in the rebellion and subsequently died in custody at Belgaum in 1858. Coinage from this feudatory therefore has a hard terminus; nothing was struck after annexation.
The window of 1840–1850 places this piece squarely within the final independent decade of the mint's operation.