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2 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Junagadh State |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 2 Paisa |
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| Obverse lettering | જનરલ સ્ટામ્પ. બે ૨ પૈસા સાયાજૂ |
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| Reverse lettering | سورٹ سرکار دو پیسے |
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Junagadh was a princely state on the Kathiawar Peninsula whose Nawab retained considerable administrative autonomy under British paramountcy. The wartime disruption to metal supplies during 1943 prompted dozens of Indian princely states to issue low-denomination paper substitutes for coinage — the 2 paisa value targeting the smallest everyday transactions that bronze had previously served. Junagadh's issues from this period are among the more obscure of these emergency fractional notes, produced in limited quantities for strictly local use.
Pick S333 is poorly documented in most standard references, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce.