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2 Annas Chittagong; United Services Officers' Club

Issuer United Services Officers' Club, Chittagong
Year 1942-1945
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Currency Rupee (1770-1947)
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Obverse description Black letterpress print on pink paper. A hatched geometric border frames the entire face, with two lateral panels of diagonal cross-hatching flanking a central white oval bearing the large numeral "2". Issuer name and location appear at top; denomination in words at foot.
Obverse lettering United Services Officers' Club
CHITTAGONG
VOUCHER 2 VALUE
ANNAS TWO
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Comments

The United Services Officers' Club in Chittagong issued small-denomination scrip during the Second World War to facilitate internal transactions among British and Allied military personnel stationed in what was then a strategically critical Bengal port. Chittagong served as a major logistics hub during the Burma Campaign, and the club's scrip circulated strictly within that closed military environment — never in public commerce.

Two annas was the smallest denomination in most such club series, used for canteen purchases and minor mess charges. Pink paper was a common color-coding convention for this value across Anglo-Indian club scrip of the period.

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