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4 Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Muli Darbar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on pale blue-grey paper, the design is enclosed within a rectangular letterpress border with floral corner ornaments. A central oval vignette contains a bust portrait of Thakor Dharmendra Singhji, surrounded by a lightly crosshatched guilloche background. Gujarati inscriptions appear in a banner at the top, in vertical panels along both lateral borders, and in a banner at the bottom denoting the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | મુળી દરબાર (Muli Darbar) — top banner; ઠાકોર સાહેબ શ્રી ધર્મેન્દ્રસિંહજી (Thakor Saheb Shri Dharmendrasinghji) — side panels; ચાર આના (Char Aana / Four Annas) — bottom banner |
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The Muli Darbar was the court administration of Muli State, a small princely state in the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat. During the Second World War, severe small-denomination coin shortages across British India prompted dozens of princely states to issue their own emergency cash coupons — Muli among them. These were not banknotes in any conventional sense but internal tokens, valid only within the state's own jurisdiction.
The anna denomination places this squarely in the fractional currency problem that plagued wartime India. Four annas was a sixteenth of a rupee — exactly the range where metal had effectively vanished from daily commerce.