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2 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Chuda State |
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| Value | 2 Paisa |
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| Obverse description | A rectangular double-rule border frames a central vignette with a portrait of Thakor Bahadurshinhji, printed in blue on plain paper stock. The ruler's title "THAKOR SAHEB" appears in the top horizontal panel, "BAHADURSHINHJI" in the bottom panel, with "CHUDA STATE" running vertically along the left border and "GENERAL STAMP" along the right. Small ornamental rosette devices occupy each corner of the outer frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | ૨ પૈસા |
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Chuda was among the smaller Kathiawar princely states in present-day Gujarat, and its wartime cash coupons were issued to address the acute small-change shortage that affected much of British India during the early 1940s. Japanese naval disruption of metal supplies and the wartime diversion of base metals to munitions production made token coinage impractical across dozens of smaller states simultaneously. Paper coupons at fractional values filled the gap locally, redeemable within the state's own limited commercial sphere.
P#S227B is catalogued as a distinct variety — likely a signature or color variant from S227A — though documentation on Chuda's coupon series remains sparse even in specialist literature.