1 Paisa

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.