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2 Annas WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Palitana State |
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| Reference(s) | P#S418 |
| Obverse description | A central oval portrait vignette of Thakor Shri Bahadursinghji is enclosed within a rectangular decorative border incorporating ornamental column motifs and floral devices at the lower corners. Above the portrait, a header panel carries the state legend in Gujarati script, while the denomination is inscribed in large Gujarati characters at the top of the note; the state name appears in a footer panel below the vignette. The entire design is typeset and printed in violet-purple ink on pale grey paper. |
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| Reverse lettering | બે આના |
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Palitana was a small princely state in the Kathiawar region of what is now Gujarat. These cash coupons were issued during the Second World War when the metal shortages that plagued the entire subcontinent made small-denomination coin production impractical even for major mints — for a minor state like Palitana, ordinary fractional coinage had effectively ceased to be a viable option well before the war made things worse.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference denotes a local or provisional issue, and these Kathiawar emergency coupons are among the smallest-format paper instruments in the entire Indian princely states series by physical size.