1 Paisa - Ranbir Singh Kashmir

Ranbir Singh did not assume rule of Kashmir until 1857, making a coin attributed to his name in 1834 historically impossible — he would have been a child, and Kashmir was then governed under his father Gulab Singh's authority within the Sikh Empire's tributary structure. This piece almost certainly reflects a misattribution or a catalog dating error, as posthumous or retrospective attribution of issues to later rulers was not uncommon in 19th-century princely numismatics. The HHS reference series for Kashmir coppers is itself a contested classification, with many attributions revised in subsequent scholarship.