Unknown coin - India or similar. (RESOLVED)

19mm
10.4g

Many thanks.

If it ain't India, it's probably Nepal.

I think it is 1 paisa copper coin of Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (AD 1664-1680)

Princely states?

Shivaji Maharaj was the founder of the Maratha Kingdom in 1674 AD.
It was an independent kingdom in India before the British rule and so it's not part of Indian princely states.

Thanks Parimal....please confirm this might be the one.... NGC images are upside down
http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=87080&worldcoinid=237322&FromSearch=true

@josephjk: Yes thats the coin.

Thanks for the information.
Where does it go in the catalog? Does it need another country?

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces45179.html

This OK?

Thanks manxcat12 for adding it to catalog. Also  'India - Independent Kingdoms' is correct. There were  many independent kingdoms during the Mughal empire era having their own coins.

Some of the "Princely States" are actually Kingdoms, such as Kutch, right?

A princely state was nominally sovereign. They were not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler. But the Indian ruler would acknowledge British sovereignty in return for local autonomy.

Kutch was an independent kingdom founded in 13th Century but became a princely state in 1815 AD.
Even the states of Maratha kingdom like Indore, Gwalior, Baroda became princely states after the defeat of the Maratha's in the third Anglo-Maratha war in 1818 AD.

Indian rulers had many titles but the British government translated them all as "prince," in order to avoid the implication that the native rulers could be "kings" with status equal to that of the British monarch and hence the states were called 'Indian Princely States'

Thanks for the information, very interesting. We have some coins to move.

Unfortunately, "Independent Kingdoms" has been deleted, and my coin moved - so are the team denying the existence of this entity? This is an example of the effects of the divided forum; someone please go and tell the French to stop interfering a get back to sorting out the eternal mess of coins and tokens from their own country, or creating coin sheets depicting cartoon elephants.

Interesting    
The Krause Catalog of World Coins 1701-1800 5 Ed place this coin in India - Independent Kingdoms (Maratha Confederacy)
Maybe Numista have different categorization of countries

It's wrong though?