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1 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Dhar State Bank |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Anna |
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| Obverse description | The official seal of Dhar State Bank is positioned at the left as the principal device, flanked by denomination inscriptions in both English and Devanagari script. A serial number appears at the upper right, with a manuscript signature of the Manager occupying the lower right corner. The note bears the fractional anna value expressed in the triple notation 0-1-0 consistent with the anna subdivision of the rupee. |
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| Obverse lettering | One Anna एक आना ०-१-० (Translation: One Anna 0-1-0) |
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Dhar was a princely state in central India under the Paramountcy of the British Crown, and its state bank issued these small-denomination cash coupons during the Second World War years — almost certainly in response to the acute small-change shortage that plagued much of British India when coin metal was diverted to the war effort. The Reserve Bank of India and the broader colonial administration tolerated such local emergency scrip from princely states, though it had no validity beyond state borders.
At one anna — one-sixteenth of a rupee — these were purely transactional tokens, almost disposable by design. Survival rates are low.