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1 Paisa - Raja Raj Singh Sitamau
| Issuer | Sitamau, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1802-1867 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1802-1867) |
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Sitamau was among the smaller Rajput states in the Malwa region of central India, covering barely 200 square miles at its greatest extent. Raj Singh's reign stretched across six decades — an unusually long tenure that meant this copper paisa circulated under a single issuing authority through the entire middle period of Company consolidation in the region, from the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Maratha War through to the post-Mutiny reorganization of 1858.
Small feudatory states like Sitamau retained the right to strike copper for local use long after silver and gold coinage had effectively passed to external control.