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2 Annas WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Government of Bikaner |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing an oval Treasury hand-stamp impression in brown ink, applied off-centre toward the left side; a red ink cancellation mark in the form of radiating lines is visible overlapping the upper portion of the oval stamp. |
| Reverse lettering | TREASURY BIKANER |
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Bikaner State issued these wartime cash coupons under the emergency fiscal measures that constrained princely state finances during the Second World War. Small-denomination scrip of this kind filled a genuine gap — metal coinage had largely disappeared from circulation as strategic metals were redirected to the war effort, and the Government of India's own small change supply was severely disrupted by 1943.
Two annas sits at the lower practical threshold for paper scrip; anything smaller would have been functionally useless in daily transactions. Bikaner's coupons circulated alongside similar emergency issues from other Rajputana states, none of which saw significant survival rates due to the fragile paper and the redemption drives that followed the end of hostilities.