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1 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon - Type 'D'
| Issuer | Sayala State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Pice (1⁄64) |
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| Obverse description | The left field bears the Coat-of-Arms of Sayala State, printed in black letterpress and encircled by a circular legend reading 'SAYALA SANA'. To the right, three lines of Gujarati script give the issuer name, the denomination designation 'Revenue Stamp', and the value 'One Paisa', with the type letter 'D' centred below. A handwritten serial number appears in the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | સાયલા રટ રેવન્યુ સ્ટેમ્પ એક પૈસા D |
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Sayala was a minor princely state in Kathiawar (present-day Gujarat) covering barely 50 square miles, with a population in the low thousands. During the Second World War, small-denomination metal coinage across British India became acutely scarce — copper and brass were redirected toward the war effort — and numerous Kathiawar states responded by issuing emergency paper cash coupons to fill the fractional currency vacuum left by vanishing paise and anna coins.
The 'D' type designation distinguishes this from at least three other Sayala coupon variants in the series, suggesting successive printings or format revisions across the war years. At 52 × 30 mm, this is among the smallest paper instruments catalogued in the Indian princely states section.