1/2 Paisa - Mewar Umarda Mint

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.