1 Paisa - Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan introduced a complete calendar reform for Mysore, replacing the Hijri system with his own solar calendar — the Mauludi era — which is why this coin is dated 1215 by a reckoning most contemporary merchants would not have recognized. The reform was part of a broader administrative overhaul that extended to weights, measures, and coinage, all pursued while Tipu was simultaneously managing military campaigns against the British East India Company and their allied states.

KM#73 is among the more frequently encountered of his copper issues, though surfaces on surviving examples tend toward porosity from the alloy composition used at the Patan and Seringapatam mints.