The Sikh Empire's copper paisa issues of this period were struck at Amritsar under the authority of Ranjit Singh, whose mint operated under the pious fiction that coinage was issued in the name of the Guru Gobind Singh and the Khalsa rather than in the sovereign's own name — an unusual arrangement that persisted throughout Ranjit Singh's reign as a deliberate gesture of religious humility.
The Sikh Empire's copper paisa issues of this period were struck at Amritsar under the authority of Ranjit Singh, whose mint operated under the pious fiction that coinage was issued in the name of the Guru Gobind Singh and the Khalsa rather than in the sovereign's own name — an unusual arrangement that persisted throughout Ranjit Singh's reign as a deliberate gesture of religious humility.