1 Paisa - Ranjit Singh

Ranjit Singh's copper coinage is among the most administratively interesting of the early 19th-century subcontinent — the Sikh Empire operated multiple mints simultaneously, each with its own local conventions, making attribution genuinely difficult. The KM#Pn1 designation itself signals uncertainty: "Pn" indicates a pattern classification, suggesting this piece may never have entered regular circulation at all, or did so in quantities too small for confident documentation.

Ranjit Singh died in 1839, and the empire collapsed within a decade under British pressure. Coins from his reign were rapidly displaced by East India Company issues.