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1 Paisa - Anand Rao
| Issuer | Baroda, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1810-1820 |
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| Value | 1 Paisa (1⁄64) |
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| Reverse description | Hammered reverse displaying a bold multi-line legend in Devanagari and Arabic script arranged across the central field, with the regnal year rendered in Arabic numerals in the lower portion. A group of three pellets is visible in the upper right field, serving as an ornamental device. The inscription identifies the issuing authority and provides the Hijri date of striking. The overall design is characteristic of the informal, utilitarian style of Baroda princely copper coinage of the early nineteenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1225 (1810) - - 1226 (1811) - - 1227 (1812) - - 1228 (1813) - - 1229 (1814) - - 1230 (1815) - - 1231 (1816) - - 1232 (1817) - - 1233 (1818) - (fr) AR 13 - 1234 (1819) - (fr) AR 14 - 1235 (1820) - - |
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Anand Rao — properly Anand Rao Gaekwad — ruled Baroda under effective British supervision following the deposition of his predecessor Vitoji Rao in 1800, after the latter was found incompetent by the East India Company. The paisa issues of his reign were struck under a local authority that was sovereign in name but increasingly constrained in practice, the 1802 Treaty of Bassein having drawn the Gaekwad state firmly into the subsidiary alliance system.
C#21 is among the more readily attributed Baroda copper issues of the period, though die workmanship varied considerably across the decade-long span of this type.