1 Paisa - Maharaja Ranbir Singh Kashmir

Ranbir Singh ruled Jammu and Kashmir from 1856 until his death in 1885, having inherited the throne from his father Gulab Singh — the Dogra chieftain who acquired Kashmir from the Sikh Empire for 7.5 million Nanakshahis under the Treaty of Amritsar in 1846. The princely state maintained its own coinage throughout his reign, a right jealously protected despite British paramountcy over the subcontinent. These copper issues circulated alongside heavier silver rupees in a local economy where the paisa denominations did the real daily work.