1 Paisa - Nalvadi Raja Venkatappa Nayaka

Shorapur was an anomaly among Hyderabad's feudatory states — its ruling Nayaka dynasty had maintained semi-autonomous authority long enough to strike its own copper coinage, a privilege the Nizam's administration increasingly curtailed through the mid-nineteenth century. Venkatappa Nayaka's reign ended abruptly in 1858 when the British, citing his alleged role in supporting the Rebellion, annexed Shorapur directly and extinguished the line entirely. Coins from his tenure represent one of the last issues before that annexation erased the state from the map.