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1 Anna WW II Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Muli Darbar, Princely State of Muli |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Size | 52 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on brown pressboard, the obverse is framed by a rectangular border with ornamental corner devices and Gujarati script legends arranged along all four sides. A central oval vignette contains a portrait of Thakore Saheb Harish Chandra Sinhji. The denomination 'એક આનો' (One Anna) appears in a panel at the foot of the design, with the issuing authority 'મુળી દરબાર' inscribed across the top panel. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, consisting of unprinted brown pressboard stock with no design, text, or markings of any kind. |
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Muli was a minor Kathiawar princely state covering roughly 100 square miles, and its wartime cash coupons occupy a strange administrative gap — technically sovereign issues under the paramountcy framework, yet functionally closer to local scrip than currency. The pressboard composition is typical of the material shortages that hit small princely treasuries hard during 1943–45, when paper supply for non-essential printing was severely restricted across British India.
Pick S372A is among the smallest-format issues in the entire Kathiawar series. At those dimensions, it would have been easy to lose and harder to counterfeit convincingly — though for a denomination of one anna, the economic incentive to fake one was essentially nonexistent.