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1 Anna

Emittent Rajkot State
Jahr 1940-1945
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Printed in purple-violet on buff paper, the note centres on an oval vignette enclosing a bust portrait of the Rajkot ruler in decorated turban and military attire, surrounded by a dotted guilloche border with the inscription "RAJKOT STATE" arcing along the upper and lower edges of the oval frame. Gujarati script legends occupy vertical cartouches along both lateral margins, with a title panel reading "જનરલ સ્ટેમ્પ" at the top centre. The denomination "૧ આના" (1 Anna) is set within a rectangular panel at the foot of the note.
Vorderseitenlegende RAJKOT STATE
જનરલ સ્ટેમ્પ
૧ આના
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Rajkot was a small princely state in Kathiawar, Gujarat, governed by the Jadeja Rajput dynasty. Like many Kathiawar states, it issued low-denomination fractional currency — annas rather than rupees — to address a chronic shortage of small change that British India's Reserve Bank had little incentive to solve for minor principalities. The 1 Anna denomination is about as low as princely state paper currency gets, and Rajkot examples are among the scarcer Kathiawar issues.

The wartime date range reflects tightened coin metal supplies after 1940, which pushed several small states toward emergency paper fractions.