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1 Paisa
| Issuer | Princely state of Banswara (Indian Local and Princely states) |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered copper flan bearing Devanagari and Nagari script characters arranged across the field in an irregular, hand-engraved manner. A prominent symbol, likely a stylised dynastic or religious device, occupies the central area, with additional script elements distributed around the periphery. The surfaces are heavily worn and porous, consistent with hand-struck provincial coinage of the period. The overall style is characteristic of the crude regal copper coinage issued by the Banswara princely state in the nineteenth century. |
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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 coinage remained largely unofficial in character well into the second half of the nineteenth century. The British Political Agent exercised nominal oversight, but local rulers retained enough autonomy to strike their own copper with minimal standardization — which is why weights across surviving Banswara paisa vary considerably from the catalogued figure.
KM#13 is poorly documented in the primary literature, and auction appearances are infrequent enough that die varieties have never been systematically recorded.