Catalog
1/2 Paisa - Mewar Umarda Mint
| Issuer | Princely state of Mewar |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Plain copper field of irregular square flan, showing a trishul (trident) symbol centrally positioned with the shaft extending vertically and a stylized hook or serpentine element curling to the right. The design is primitively struck in the hammered tradition typical of Mewar feudatory coinage, with no surrounding legend or border. The flan exhibits characteristic irregular edges and uneven surface texture consistent with hand-struck copper issues of the Umarda mint. |
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| Reverse script | Devanagari |
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Mewar's copper fractionals from the Umarda mint occupy an almost invisible corner of Indian princely coinage — the mint itself was a secondary facility, and its output was modest enough that attribution to Umarda specifically rather than the broader Mewar series took numismatists considerable comparative die work to establish. The half paisa denomination served the lowest tier of daily market transactions in a region where silver was hoarded rather than spent.