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1 Paisa unlisted
| Issuer | Sailana, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1880-1898 |
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| Diameter | 17.6 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the Devanagari inscription सै, representing an abbreviated form of 'Sailana', the issuing princely state located in present-day Madhya Pradesh. The legend appears in raised relief at the centre of the field, executed in the same crude, cast technique as the obverse. The flan surface is rough and porous, typical of locally cast copper paise of central Indian princely states in the late nineteenth century. No additional devices, borders, or ornamental elements are present. |
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| Edge | Rough |
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Sailana was among the smallest of the Rajputana princely states, covering barely 300 square miles, yet it maintained its own copper coinage through the reign of Jaswant Singh II. The "unlisted" designation here is significant — KM# 10 covers the broader type, but die variations from minor states like Sailana were inconsistently documented by early catalogers, and pieces falling outside recorded parameters are encountered just rarely enough to suggest either a short supplementary striking or a attribution problem that has never been fully resolved.