1 Paisa - Ranjit Singh

Ratlam was a small Rajput princely state in Malwa whose coinage history is tangled by near-constant dynastic disputes and British interventions throughout the nineteenth century. That this issue bears the name of Ranjit Singh is notable — the state saw its rulership lapse to the Crown on more than one occasion under the doctrine of lapse, and local copper issues like this one often continued circulating well beyond their nominal date, filling gaps left by administrative disruption.