1 Paisa - Elichpur Hyderabad Feudatory

Elichpur — now Achalpur in Maharashtra — was a small feudatory within the Nizam's dominions that retained the right to strike its own copper coinage well into the mid-nineteenth century. This privilege was a remnant of Mughal-era administrative arrangements that the Nizams largely preserved rather than dismantled, leaving a patchwork of local minting authority across Hyderabad State. The series ran across three and a half decades, meaning dies and production standards were almost certainly not consistent across the full span.

C#10 attributions for this type rely heavily on weight and fabric rather than legible inscriptions, as deteriorating dies were rarely replaced with care.