1 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon

Jasdan was a minor thikana in the Kathiawar Agency of Bombay Presidency — a small enough state that it had no business issuing currency under normal circumstances. But World War II created acute coinage shortages across British India as metal was redirected toward the war effort, and dozens of princely states, particularly in Kathiawar, responded by issuing emergency paper cash coupons to fill the fractional currency gap left by vanishing bronze and copper coins.

Pick S321 is among the lowest denominations issued by any Indian princely authority — one paisa being a sixty-fourth of a rupee. That Jasdan felt compelled to print at that level reflects just how completely small-denomination coinage had dried up by the early 1940s.