1 Rupee - Vikramajit Mahendra

Orchha's rulers struck coins in the name of the Mughal emperor well into the nineteenth century, long after Mughal authority had effectively collapsed. "Vikramajit Mahendra" is a regnal title rather than a personal name — the ruling house maintained this fiction of Mughal suzerainty partly as political convention, partly to preserve the legitimacy that Mughal nomenclature still carried with local populations even as the British were consolidating control across Bundelkhand.

The state came under British paramountcy through a treaty in 1812, yet local coinage continued undisturbed for years after.