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2 Annas Tezpur; Officers' Club
| Issuer | Officers Club, Tezpur |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 2 Annas (⅛) |
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| Obverse description | Dark red letterpress text on a pink guilloche underprint of repeating wave patterns covering the entire field. The denomination "As. 2." is set in large bold type at centre, flanked by the year "1944" on both sides, with the issuer and purpose inscribed above in progressively smaller type. |
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| Obverse lettering | OFFICERS CLUB TEZPUR. BAR COUPONS FOR As. 2. 1944 |
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Officers' clubs across British India occasionally issued their own internal scrip during the Second World War to manage canteen and mess transactions without drawing on official currency reserves. Tezpur, in Assam, was a significant military staging post during the Burma campaign — the town sat close enough to the front that normal banking arrangements were frequently disrupted.
Club-issued scrip of this type was strictly local and redeemable only within the issuing mess, which meant most examples were spent, lost, or discarded rather than retained. Two-anna denominations served the smallest everyday purchases. Survivor rate is accordingly low.