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1 Paisa - Sikh Imitation Loharu
| Issuer | Sikh Empire |
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| Year | 1800-1850 |
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| Reference(s) | HHS#19.19.11 |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Loharu was a small princely state in the Punjab hills whose copper coinage became a template widely imitated by Sikh-adjacent mints during the first half of the nineteenth century. These imitative issues were not forgeries in any modern legal sense — they circulated by convention and weight acceptance rather than by issuing authority, filling a practical void in a region where small-denomination copper was chronically short.
Attribution to the Sikh Empire specifically remains contested among specialists; HHS cataloguing acknowledges the imitative relationship but the precise mint origin is unresolved.