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1 Paise WW II Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Wankaner State |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on salmon-pink paper stock, with a rectangular border of fine rule lines enclosing the central vignette. A portrait bust of the ruling chief occupies the centre within an arched guilloche-style frame with scrollwork at the corners; the denomination numeral '1' appears in corner cartouches at all four angles. The legend 'ONE PAISE' is printed across the top panel in bold Roman capitals, 'WANKANER STATE' appears in a curved tablet at the foot of the portrait frame, and Gujarati script inscriptions run vertically along both lateral margins as well as horizontally across the bottom panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE PAISE WANKANER STATE વાંકાનેર રાજ્ય એક પૈસો |
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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.