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1 Anna Rangoon; United Services Officers' Club
| Issuer | United Services Officers' Club, Rangoon |
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| Year | 1945-1948 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain black letterpress print on white paper with a border of vertical rule striping on all four sides. The issuer name and location appear at the top, with the denomination ANNA in large bold type at centre. A horizontal rule divides the field, below which VOUCHER, the numeral 1, and VALUE are aligned, with ANNA ONE repeated at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | United Services Officers' Club RANGOON ANNA VOUCHER 1 VALUE ANNA ONE |
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The United Services Officers' Club in Rangoon issued a series of low-denomination tokens in paper form for canteen and mess use during the immediate postwar period — a common enough practice in British military and colonial club environments, but one that rarely produced surviving examples given how aggressively these were redeemed or discarded once the club account was settled. The anna denomination places this firmly within the pre-decimal Indian currency system still in use in Burma before its monetary separation from India was fully consolidated.
Burma's postwar reconstruction between 1945 and 1948 was administratively chaotic enough that informal scrip of this kind filled real gaps in small-change availability.