2 Annas Air Transport Command

The Air Transport Command operated the India-China-Burma theater supply routes and issued scrip denominations in local currency equivalents — annas included — specifically to allow American service personnel to make small purchases without accessing or disrupting the local coin supply. The 2 Annas piece sits in the lower end of that scrip ladder, suited to minor transactions: food stalls, rickshaws, incidental local commerce.

ATC scrip of this period is frequently conflated with Allied Military Currency, but it was not legal tender and carried no formal backing from the Reserve Bank of India. Issued by a logistical command rather than a monetary authority, its legitimacy extended only as far as base camp discipline enforced it.