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1 Paise WW II Cash Coupon

Emittent Wankaner State
Jahr
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Währung Rupee (1862-1947)
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Vorderseitenlegende ONE PAISE
WANKANER STATE
વાંકાનેર રાજ્ય
એક પૈસો
Rückseitenbeschreibung The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of the salmon-pink paper with no design, text, or overprint of any kind.
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Anmerkungen

Wankaner was one of the smaller Kathiawar princely states in present-day Gujarat, and its wartime cash coupons were a direct response to the acute small-denomination coin shortage that gripped British India from around 1942 onward. The colonial government's metal requirements for the war effort stripped circulation of low-value coins, and many princely states — Wankaner among them — stepped in with emergency paper substitutes for fractions of a rupee.

The 1 Paise denomination is about as low as emergency scrip gets. These coupons circulated locally and were theoretically redeemable, though the redemption mechanism in smaller states was often informal at best.