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1 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Junagadh State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Anna |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper coupon printed in violet, divided into two panels by a vertical rule. The left panel carries the denomination in Gujarati script with the numeral 1, while the right panel contains the oval seal of Junagadh State with a landscape vignette at centre, flanked by asterisks and inscribed 'JUNAGADH STATE' around the circumference. A bold red manuscript signature crosses the seal diagonally, and a Gujarati legend reading 'જનરલ સ્ટામ્પ.' appears at the top of the right panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | سورٹ سرکار ایک آنہ C ڈ |
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Junagadh was a princely state on the Kathiawar Peninsula whose ruler, Nawab Mahabat Khan III, infamously attempted to accede to Pakistan in 1947 — an act the Indian government rejected by force. This coupon predates that crisis, issued during the Second World War when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation across the subcontinent, hoarded by a public that correctly anticipated shortages. Dozens of princely states responded by issuing emergency paper scrip in fractional values; Junagadh's Anna coupons belong to that wave.
The S-prefix in the Pick catalog places it among provisional and state issues, a category that tends to be underdocumented.