1 Paisa - Shah Alam II Bindraban

Bindraban — also spelled Vrindavan — was a small princely state in the Mathura region, its political identity inseparable from the town's status as a major Vaishnava pilgrimage site. Shah Alam II, the Mughal emperor in whose name this paisa was struck, had by this point been effectively powerless for decades, his authority a legal fiction maintained by regional rulers who needed the nominal legitimacy his name provided on coinage. The practice cost them nothing and lent a veneer of imperial sanction to local issues.

KM#5 is among the scarcer Bindraban copper types, the state's minting activity being both limited in scope and poorly documented in surviving records.