1 Paisa - Khande Rao

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.