In a culturally diverse country as India, art has been the most preferable medium for humans to express their emotions, religious sentiments, beliefs, and reactions. Apart from other art forms, the coins hold a unique prominence in digging out the historical, administrative, political, economic, social, religious and the artistic facets of Indian history. In India, apart from being a source of monetary exchange, coins have had served to ascertain the authority and sovereignty of Indian rulers or the invaders claiming their rule in the different parts of the country. The art over the coins, whether it be certain symbols, motifs, human and animal figures, text, or numerals, kept on varying depending upon the ruling power under which they were minted. Like other Indian dynasties, Sikh rulers also issued coins which bore inscriptions, design motifs, legends and certain symbols representing a rich artistic culture prevalent in Sikh community which absorbed various foreign influences common ate that time; thus providing them the final form which people see today as one of the rich sources of art of the Sikh rulers. This study reads about the coins minted during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and offers a thorough investigation of the concerned art motifs and their symbolic language. It will also unearth the role of geographically- foreign impacts, social ideological matrix, religion, administrative disturbance, influences of its contemporary art forms and the ruler’s personal enthusiasm for art. Moreover, this study will also suggest how an ordinary piece of currency gained artistic merit and contributed to India’s rich art history.