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| Issuer | Banswara, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse script | Devanagari |
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Banswara was among the smaller Rajput states in the southern Rajputana Agency, and its copper coinage of this period was struck locally with hand-cut dies — accounting for the significant variation in placement, depth, and alignment that makes KM#12 a recognized variety collector's target rather than a simple type coin. The British Raj permitted such autonomous local issues to continue well past mid-century, largely because replacing them with imperial coinage in minor states carried administrative costs that outweighed the symbolic benefit.