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2 Annas WW II Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Indergadh, Princely state of |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears an impression derived from the reverse design of the British Indian 1939 2 Annas coin, rendered on plain paper stock in a rudimentary wartime production style typical of emergency cash coupons issued by Indian princely states during World War II. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, with no printed design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the austere wartime emergency issue nature of this coupon. |
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Indergadh was a minor talukdari estate in the Central India Agency, and its wartime cash coupons were a purely local response to the severe small-change shortage that afflicted much of India from 1942 onward. Metal was being diverted to the war effort, and coins of low denomination effectively vanished from everyday commerce. Hundreds of princely states, municipalities, and private merchants across India issued paper substitutes of varying formality — Indergadh's coupons sit firmly at the informal end of that spectrum.
The near-square format is a consequence of printing on whatever stock was available, not a design choice.