Watch List notes:

India, Princely States, Sikh Empire, Pattern Paisa, "1830", in copper, three lines of inscription in Persian text, divided by two bars, rev. three lines of Persian, undivided, with a partial date, 27mm, edge milled (KM {1981 ed.} Pn1; Valentine 126/8; cf. Baldwin 71, lot 1469), usual die cracks, otherwise good very fine, with trace mint colour in recesses, the only machine made pattern for the Sikh coinage.
The dies were evidently prepared by an engraver unfamiliar with the Persian script, given the awkward style of the legends and only partial date rendering. It is assumed, on the basis of iconography, that the date represents the Gregorian calendar system rather than native Vikrami system (VS 1830 = AD 1773).