1 Pice WWII Cash Coupon

Bamra was one of the smaller princely states in Orissa, and its wartime cash coupons were a direct response to the acute small-change famine that struck rural India after 1940, when hoarding of base metal coins became widespread following the outbreak of war. The Government of India could not meet demand for fractional currency, and dozens of princely states filled the gap with locally issued paper substitutes — Bamra among them.

No Pick number has been assigned, and surviving documentation on the precise issuing authority within the state is thin. Bamra coupons of this type rarely surface outside Indian specialist auctions.