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2 Paisa WW II Cash Coupon
| Uitgever | Palitana State |
|---|---|
| Jaar | |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed in dark grey on tan pressboard, the obverse carries a central oval portrait vignette of Thakor Shri Bahadursinghji within a decorative rectangular frame ornamented with foliate and zoomorphic elements at the corners. The denomination inscription in Gujarati script appears at the top, with the legend "જનરલ સ્ટેમ્પ" (General Stamp) immediately above the portrait frame, and "પાલીતાણા સ્ટેટ" (Palitana State) in a cartouche at the base. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | No ૨ પૈસા |
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| Opmerkingen |
Palitana was a princely state in the Kathiawar peninsula of Gujarat, and like dozens of other small Indian states during World War II, it issued low-denomination emergency cash coupons to address the acute coin shortage that wartime metal requisitioning had created across British India. The 2 Paisa denomination is about as small as these issues get — fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by the early 1940s, and these pressboard substitutes filled a gap that the colonial monetary system simply couldn't cover fast enough.
The pressboard composition distinguishes it from the tissue-thin emergency chits issued by larger states; Palitana's coupons were built to take some handling.