1 Paisa - Abdur Rahman

Abdur Rahman Khan spent much of his reign — backed by a British subsidy that funded both his army and his administrative reforms — consolidating control over a fragmented Afghanistan through a combination of military campaigns and deliberate centralization. Coinage reform was part of that project. The Kabul Mint under his rule produced a chaotic range of small copper issues in varying weights and quality, and this paisa sits within that messy transitional period when standardization was attempted but never fully achieved.

KM#801 is known with considerable striking inconsistencies across the type.