Catalog
3 Pies
| Issuer | Bundi State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in brownish-purple shows the Maharaja seated between two Brahma bulls, rendered in a simple letterpress style. The denomination "3 Pies" appears in a cartouche at the top, with the legends "CASH COUPON" and "BUNDI STATE" overprinted in bold type across the central design. A lower panel carries the Devanagari inscription, and the note is perforated on all sides in the manner of a stamp-format coupon. |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 Pies Cash Coupon Bundi State तिन पैसा |
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Bundi was one of the smaller Rajputana princely states, and its wartime fractional currency issues are among the more obscure local emissions from the period. The 3 Pies denomination — a fraction of an anna, itself a fraction of a rupee — reflects genuine small-change scarcity during the early 1940s, when metal coinage was being diverted to the war effort and low-denomination coin shortages hit rural markets hard.
Pick S221 is poorly documented in most references, with surviving specimens rare enough that reliable population data is essentially nonexistent.