1 Paisa Farid al-Din Sher Shah

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.