1 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon

Ambliara was a minor princely state in the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat, and like dozens of similarly small feudatory states during the Second World War, it issued low-denomination cash coupons to address a genuine coin shortage — the wartime demand for metal had severely disrupted small-change supply across British India. These coupons were instruments of local fiscal necessity, not banking ambition.

The issuing authority named on this note, Thakor Shri S.V. Ambliara, refers to the ruling Thakor of the state — a title common among the minor chiefs of Kathiawar. Ambliara merged into the Saurashtra union in 1948, which effectively terminated the validity of these coupons.