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1 Rupee Tezpur; Officers' Club

Issuer Officers Club, Tezpur
Year 1944
Type Vouchers
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Obverse description Red letterpress text on a light green guilloche underprint of fine wavy lines. The coupon bears the issuer name at top, location below, denomination in large type at centre flanked by the year 1944 on both sides.
Obverse lettering OFFICERS CLUB
TEZPUR.
BAR COUPONS FOR
Re. 1. 1944
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Comments

Military club tokens issued in paper form were common across British India during the Second World War, particularly where coinage shortages made small-denomination transactions awkward in mess and canteen settings. Tezpur, in Assam, was a significant RAF and Army base during the Burma campaign — the town sat close enough to the front that conventional banking infrastructure was unreliable and coin supply genuinely disrupted.

These club chits functioned as internal scrip, redeemable only within the issuing establishment. Survival rate is low; most were redeemed and discarded rather than preserved.

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