The Sikh Empire's copper paisa coinage was struck at multiple mints simultaneously, each operating with considerable autonomy under the Khalsa administration. The KM#7.13 attribution places this piece within the Amritsar mint's output, the most politically significant of the Sikh minting facilities given the city's religious centrality to the Khalsa. Dating these pieces within the 1822–1830 window is complicated by the deliberate archaism of Sikh coinage — regnal dating conventions were inconsistently applied, and the same dies were sometimes used across multiple years without modification.
The Sikh Empire's copper paisa coinage was struck at multiple mints simultaneously, each operating with considerable autonomy under the Khalsa administration. The KM#7.13 attribution places this piece within the Amritsar mint's output, the most politically significant of the Sikh minting facilities given the city's religious centrality to the Khalsa. Dating these pieces within the 1822–1830 window is complicated by the deliberate archaism of Sikh coinage — regnal dating conventions were inconsistently applied, and the same dies were sometimes used across multiple years without modification.