Catalog
25 Koris
| Issuer | Government of Kutch |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Kori (1586-1947) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of the Maharajah of Kutch in ceremonial dress with medals and sash at right, set within an ornate vignette frame; at left, a second portrait vignette in pale underprint. The central panel bears the denomination in English and Gujarati script beneath a guilloche arch, with the legend "I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND" arching across the top. A facsimile signature of the Diwan of Kutch appears in the lower centre panel above the issuer inscription, with serial number panels in green at lower left and right; all zeroes indicating trial status. |
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| Obverse lettering | I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND KORIS TWENTY-FIVE કોરી ૨૫ પચીસ FOR GOVERNMENT OF KUTCH GOVERNMENT OF KUTCH DEWAN KUTCH શ્રી કચ્છ સરકાર |
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Kutch was a princely state in what is now Gujarat, and its right to issue currency persisted right up to the final years before Indian independence and integration. The Diwan — effectively the chief minister — signing banknotes rather than a banking official is characteristic of the more administratively intimate princely state issues, where the separation between treasury and government was, in practice, thin.
Tribhovandas J. Raja's tenure as Diwan places this note in the last window of Kutch's autonomous monetary existence. The state acceded to the Indian Union in 1948, after which these notes lost legal tender status.