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1 Paisa 'Bhutwaliya / Gorakhpuri Paisa' Non magnetic
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 1800-1880 |
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| Value | 1 Paisa |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1800-1880) |
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The "Gorakhpuri Paisa" designation reflects the commercial corridor between the Tarai lowlands and the British Indian city of Gorakhpur, through which enormous volumes of these copper pieces circulated as trade currency. Nepal's hill mints during this period operated with minimal central oversight, and the Bhutwal region — a contested border zone that changed hands between Nepal and the East India Company more than once during the early nineteenth century — produced coins of wildly inconsistent quality. The eighty-year attribution window in the catalog is not laziness; die evidence and surviving specimens genuinely resist tighter dating.