2 Paisa

Nepal's copper paisa coinage of this period was struck under the Shah dynasty kings, with production methods that changed little across decades — hand-struck from locally prepared flans with no guarantee of consistency in alloy or weight. The copper-iron mixture reflects pragmatic metallurgy rather than any formal standard, and composition varies measurably between surviving specimens.

KM#373 spans a remarkably long eighty-year window, issued across multiple reigns without meaningful design revision.