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1 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Ramgarh Raj |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | INDIA AN NA 1 1941 एक आना एक माना |
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| Protection type | Serial number |
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Ramgarh Raj was a zamindari estate in Bihar, and like several princely and semi-autonomous territories during the Second World War, it resorted to issuing its own fractional cash coupons when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by wartime demand. The 1 Anna denomination placed this squarely in the everyday transaction range where the shortage bit hardest.
A serial number as the sole security feature was typical of these improvised local issues, which were never intended to circulate beyond the estate's own tenants and markets.