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1 Anna Chittagong; United Services Officers' Club
| Issuer | United Services Officers' Club, Chittagong |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1770-1947) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on tan paper within a geometric hatched border. The issuer name and location appear at top, flanking a central numeral '1' set within a lozenge-pattern underprint frame. Denomination 'ANNA ONE' is printed at the base, with 'VOUCHER' and 'VALUE' flanking the central device. |
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| Obverse lettering | United Services Officers' Club CHITTAGONG VOUCHER 1 VALUE ANNA ONE |
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The United Services Officers' Club in Chittagong issued these small-denomination notes during the Second World War, almost certainly in response to the acute small-change shortage that afflicted British India as the war economy drew coin out of circulation and hoarding accelerated. Chittagong's strategic position — it was the principal port supplying the Burma campaign — meant a substantial and transient military population that needed working change for canteen and mess transactions.
Club-issued chits of this kind had no legal standing whatsoever. They functioned purely on institutional trust within a closed community, redeemable only at the issuing establishment.