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1 Millieme ND 1942
| Issuer | Darfur |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A Sudan Postage stamp of 3 Piastres, printed in rose-red and blue, repurposed as an emergency local currency issue. The central vignette shows a camel postman in motion, rendered in intaglio. Two black overprints are applied: the legend NOT VALID FOR POSTAGE in large bold letterpress across the centre, and an Arabic numeral overprint reading ١ مليم (1 Millieme) in the lower central area. The stamp retains its original perforated edges, Arabic and English inscriptions, and corner numeral tablets. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT VALID FOR POSTAGE ١ مليم SUDAN POSTAGE PIASTRES 3 بوستة سودانية غرش |
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Darfur issued its own fractional currency during the Second World War because the remote western Sudan province was effectively cut off from adequate coin and note supply out of Khartoum. This 1 Millieme piece — barely larger than a postage stamp — was an emergency local issue, one of the most obscure wartime currency experiments in the entire African theater. The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan administration tolerated such improvised regional instruments out of necessity, not policy.
The watermark on a note this small is a genuine curiosity: at 34 × 29 mm, there was almost no room to incorporate it without it dominating the entire sheet.