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1 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Bilkha State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Pice (1⁄64) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper coupon of small format, printed by letterpress in dark ink, with a central circular vignette likely bearing the portrait or seal of the ruling chief, in heavily worn condition. A rectangular panel at the base carries the denomination inscription in Gujarati script. The overall design is typographically simple, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Obverse lettering | અક પઇસો |
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Bilkha was a minor princely state in Kathiawar, Gujarat, and like several small states in the region it issued local cash coupons during the Second World War to address acute small-denomination coin shortages — the wartime metal demands on British India having effectively stripped subsidiary coinage from circulation. These coupons carried no Reserve Bank of India backing and were honored only within the state's own territory.
The P#S-NL designation confirms no Pick listing exists for this piece. Very few Bilkha coupons have been documented, and the absence of a standard catalog reference makes provenance and print-run data almost entirely dependent on surviving specimens.