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1 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Junagadh State |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | જનરલ સ્ટામ્પ્ એક ૧ પૈસો |
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| Reverse lettering | No. |
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Junagadh State's wartime cash coupons were emergency fractional currency issued because small-denomination coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation across the Indian subcontinent by 1943 — hoarding and metal requisitions for the war effort created an acute shortage of low-value coins throughout the princely states and British India alike. Junagadh, a small state on the Kathiawar peninsula under the Nawab Mahabat Khan III, was among several minor princely administrations forced to print paper substitutes for coins that had simply stopped circulating.
The S-prefix Pick reference places this firmly in the specialized princely states category — documentation for these issues remains fragmentary, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.