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1 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Nawanagar State |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Small-format cash coupon printed in olive-brown tones, centred around a portrait vignette of the ruling dignitary set within an ornate rectangular frame with foliate and scrollwork borders. A cartouche at the top of the frame bears the fiscal year date "1944-45", while Gujarati script inscriptions appear along the lateral and lower panels of the frame. A handwritten serial number in dark ink appears above the vignette area. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1944-45 |
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Nawanagar was a princely state on the Kathiawar peninsula in what is now Gujarat. During the Second World War, a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage across British India prompted many princely states to issue emergency cash coupons as substitutes. Nawanagar's series, including this 1 Anna piece, filled the gap left by the withdrawal of copper and bronze coinage redirected toward the war effort.
Pick S392 is among the more obscure entries in the princely states emergency issues. Nawanagar is better remembered for its cricket than its currency — the state's ruler Ranjitsinhji had been one of England's great batsmen — but these coupons represent one of the more practical administrative decisions of the wartime period.