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1 Paisa WW II Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Muli Darbar, Princely State of Muli |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S371 |
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| Obverse lettering | મુળી દરબાર ઠાકોર આઈ બ જી એક પઈસો |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain, with no printed design, text, or ornamentation; the unprinted buff pressboard surface constitutes the full reverse. |
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Muli was a minor thakorate in the Kathiawar peninsula of western India, and its wartime cash coupons belong to a category of emergency scrip that proliferated across small princely states when metal coinage essentially vanished from circulation between 1943 and 1945. The wartime demand for copper, brass, and nickel stripped subsidiary coinage from everyday commerce across British India, forcing dozens of small states to issue paper substitutes at fractions of an anna.
Printed on pressboard rather than banknote paper, these coupons were never meant to last. Survival rates are extremely low — the material deteriorates badly, and post-war redemption drives destroyed most of what remained in circulation.