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1 Paisa Farid al-Din Sher Shah
| Issuer | Sur Empire |
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| Year | 1538-1545 |
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| Value | 1 Paika (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered copper flan bearing multi-line Arabic script inscription arranged in two registers separated by a horizontal line across the field. The legends, rendered in a bold but somewhat irregular hand characteristic of Sur Empire copper coinage, occupy virtually the entire face of the coin. Peripheral lettering or marginal devices are partially visible around the rim, though much detail is obscured by die wear and patination. The overall style is consistent with the utilitarian production methods of mid-sixteenth century Indian hammered copper issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sher Shah Sur's administrative reforms during this period extended well beyond his famous reorganization of the Grand Trunk Road and the rupee coinage system. His copper paisa issues were integral to a tiered monetary framework designed to reach markets and tax-collection nodes that silver could not efficiently serve. The system was deliberate — not inherited.
His reign lasted only five years before his death from a gunpowder explosion at the siege of Kalinjar in 1545, making the entire copper series a product of one compressed, unusually productive reign.