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1 Paisa - Tipu Sultan Patan mint
| Issuer | Mysore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1795 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A caparisoned elephant with decorated howdah advances to right within a plain inner circle, the whole enclosed by a beaded border. The Persian letter 'Alif' (ا) appears prominently in the field above the elephant's back, serving as a mint or regnal symbol characteristic of Tipu Sultan's coinage. The elephant is rendered in a robust, stylised manner consistent with late 18th-century Mysorean copper coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1224 (1795) ١ - ۴۲۲۱ |
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Tipu Sultan introduced a complete overhaul of the Mysore coinage system in the 1780s and 1790s, abandoning the older regal conventions in favor of a new calendar, new denominations, and new mint names — Patan being his designation for the town of Chitradurga, captured from the Maratha-allied Nayakas in 1779. The reformed copper series to which this paisa belongs was issued during the final years before his death at Seringapatam in 1799, when the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ended both his reign and the independent sultanate.
Patan mint output is considerably scarcer than that of Patan's larger counterparts at Seringapatam and Farrukhyab-Haidarabad.