1 Paisa - Sher Shah Suri Alwar

Sher Shah Suri's monetary reform of the 1540s was among the most consequential in pre-Mughal India — he standardized the copper dam, silver rupiya, and gold mohur into a coherent tri-metallic system that the Mughals would essentially inherit and perpetuate for the next two centuries. The Alwar attribution places this piece within the regional mint network he established to sustain coinage across a rapidly consolidated empire that, at its peak, stretched from Bengal to the Indus.

His reign lasted only five years; he died in 1545 from an accidental gunpowder explosion at the siege of Kalinjar.