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1 Paisa - Khande Rao
| Issuer | Baroda, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1865-1869 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | Commander of the Sovereign Band |
| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line inscription in Nagari script recording the ruler's name and the regnal or Hijri date of issue. The legend is arranged in horizontal registers across the field, consistent with standard Baroda paisa coinage of the Khande Rao period. A dotted or beaded border encircles the legend, and the flan displays the irregular fabric typical of hammered or crudely milled copper issues of Indian princely states. |
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Baroda's copper paisa coinage of this period was issued under Khande Rao Gaekwad, who ruled the state from 1856 until his death in 1870. The Gaekwads had operated their own mints largely uninterrupted since the late eighteenth century, one of the few princely houses with both the infrastructure and the political leverage to maintain local copper coinage well into the colonial period. British authorities periodically pressured Indian states to rationalize their currency systems, but Baroda's coinage persisted partly due to the state's considerable autonomy — a product of its treaties with the East India Company dating to 1802.