1 Pice WWII Cash Coupon

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.