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1 Paisa - Sher Shah Suri Lucknow mint
| Issuer | Sur Empire |
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| Year | 1540-1545 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Sher Shah Suri's copper coinage was among the most systematically reformed in pre-Mughal South Asia. His broader monetary overhaul — standardizing the dam and its fractions across a fragmented subcontinent — was so effective that Akbar later adopted its structural logic wholesale. The Lucknow mint operated under Sur control during a window of perhaps five years before Humayun's return collapsed the empire entirely in 1555.
Attribution to Lucknow specifically, rather than the more prolific Agra or Delhi issues, keeps this piece toward the scarcer end of Sur copper survivorship.