1 Paisa - Sher Shah Suri Elongated name

Sher Shah Suri's administrative reforms between 1540 and 1545 included a wholesale restructuring of the Mughal-inherited currency system — he standardized weights, introduced the rupee as a silver unit of account, and brought the copper dam into regulated relationship with it. This paisa is a product of that rationalization drive. The "elongated name" variety reflects a known die difference in how the sultan's name was rendered across different mint workshops, a consistency problem Sher Shah never fully solved before his death in a gunpowder accident at the siege of Kalinjar in 1545.