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1 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Gondal State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper coupon of simple letterpress construction, printed in dark brown ink on off-white stock. The central vignette shows a hand holding crossed tools or weapons, flanked to the left by Gujarati script denoting the denomination and to the right by a serial number. An inscription in Gujarati at the top center reads 'Gondal', with an additional line of text at the lower center, all enclosed within a single ruled rectangular border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ગોંડલ / એક / ૧ / આનો |
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Gondal was a small princely state in the Kathiawar peninsula of what is now Gujarat, and like several other Indian princely states during the Second World War, it faced acute small-change shortages as metal was diverted to the war effort. These cash coupons were a local stopgap — issued by the durbar rather than a chartered bank, which is why they fall outside standard Pick numbering entirely.
The anna denomination places this squarely in the fractional emergency category. Princely state issues of this kind were typically printed on minimal budgets, often by local presses with no security printing infrastructure, and survival rates are poor simply because nobody thought to preserve them.