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1 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Sailana, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Anna (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse lettering | SAILANA STATE 1 Anna |
| Reverse description | Plain light brown background enclosed within a single rectangular border, with a diagonal handstamped serial number in the centre field, a series letter and number to the upper left, and a Devanagari date notation at the lower right. |
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Sailana was among the smallest of the princely states — roughly 300 square miles in what is now Madhya Pradesh — and its wartime cash coupons are among the more obscure fiscal instruments to emerge from the Indian subcontinent during the 1940s. The broader context is a familiar one: disrupted supply lines, coinage shortages, and a colonial administration stretched thin enough that local rulers were left to devise their own small-denomination substitutes.
P#S431 is catalogued without a precise date, which is typical of these coupons — Sailana issued several denominations across the war years with minimal documentation surviving.