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1 Quarter Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Khadal State (Thakor Shri Khadal) |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Plain pinkish paper note with letterpress text in Gujarati script. At top, the issuer name "ખડાલ સ્ટેટ" (Khadal State) appears in quotation marks, followed by a serial number prefixed by "નં." A centrally placed circular vignette imitates a coin design, with an ornate border enclosing the denomination legend "ONE QUARTER ANNA" in three lines. Below the vignette, a Gujarati denomination inscription and a manuscript signature of the Thakor appear above the issuer authority line "ઠાકોર શ્રી ખડાલ". |
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| Reverse lettering | સૂચના અમારી સહી વગરની ટીકીટ રદ સમજવી. ટીકીટ સાચવી રાખવી. જે હમોને પહોંચો રજૂ કરશે તેને નાણાં આપીશું. એક રૂપીઓ પૂરો થયે પાછી લાવી રૂપીઓ લઈ જવો. ખૂટતા અવેજે વટાવવી હોય તો ખૂટતુ પરચૂરણ લાવવું ખડાલ સ્ટેટમાં આવવાની. ઠાકોર શ્રી ખડાલ |
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Khadal was among the smallest of the Kathiawar princely states in western India — a minor thakorate with negligible revenue and no formal banking infrastructure. The wartime cash coupons issued by these tiny states were practical improvisations driven by the severe coin shortage that afflicted rural Gujarat and Kathiawar during World War II, when metal was diverted to the war effort and the colonial monetary supply to remote areas collapsed.
No Pick number has been assigned; surviving examples are so rare that standardized catalog treatment has never been possible. Attribution itself sometimes rests on a single known specimen.