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1 Paisa WW II Cash Coupon - Type 'F'
| Issuer | Sayala State |
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| Currency | Rupee (1862-1947) |
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| Obverse lettering | સાયલા સ્ટેટ / રેવ્ન્યુ સ્ટેમ્પ / એક પૈસો / F |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on unadorned buff-coloured plain paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the uniface production of this wartime emergency issue. |
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Sayala was a minor princely state in the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat, and like several small Indian states during the Second World War, it issued low-denomination cash coupons to address acute small-change shortages — a problem that afflicted both British India and the princely states simultaneously when metal was diverted to the war effort. The Type 'F' designation within the S435 series suggests Sayala produced multiple coupon variants, likely differing in typographic layout or handstamp detail rather than fundamental design.
These Kathiawar coupon issues are among the most poorly documented of all Indian emergency paper, and attribution between states is occasionally disputed.