1 Paisa - Jayaji Rao Sindhia Gwalior Fort

Jayaji Rao Sindhia ruled Gwalior for over four decades under increasingly tight British Residency oversight, yet the princely state retained the right to strike its own copper coinage throughout — a concession that shrank with each successive treaty revision. The Gwalior Fort issues of this period were struck at the fort mint itself, one of the more defensible minting locations in central India, and the paisa denominations saw heavy circulation among bazaar traders in the Chambal region.