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1 Pice WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Sailana State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Red-ground note with Devanagari denomination inscription ('पाव आना') across the upper portion, series designation at left, and a stamped serial number applied diagonally at centre. A date in Devanagari numerals appears at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | पाव आना |
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Sailana was among the smallest of the Indian princely states — a minor chieftainship in the Malwa region of Central India covering barely 300 square miles. During the Second World War, acute small-change shortages across British India prompted dozens of princely states to issue their own emergency cash coupons as low-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. Sailana's 1 Pice coupon belongs to that wave of wartime fiscal improvisation.
The Pick S430 designation places it firmly in the Spink/Cuhaj princely states emergency issues catalogue. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce — Sailana's total population at the time was under 50,000, meaning production volumes were never large.