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4 Annas WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Thikana of Nawalgarh |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Circular cash coupon printed in brown on plain paper stock, bearing the Devanagari numeral '४' (4) at the top centre, followed by centred inscriptions in three lines reading the issuing authority and denomination. A small decorative bird-like vignette appears at the base of the text field. The overall layout is typeset in letterpress without pictorial imagery. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse of the circular coupon, bearing a two-line oval validation stamp in purple ink reading 'THIKANA OFFICE' around the border with 'NAWALGARH.' contained within an inner oval. A small architectural vignette of the Thikana building appears beneath the oval stamp, with a faint cross-hatched cancellation mark visible at the top centre. |
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Nawalgarh was a thikana — a subordinate jagir — within Shekhawati, Rajasthan, not a princely state with formal treaty rights to issue currency. That distinction matters here. These cash coupons were quasi-fiscal instruments issued during wartime to address acute small-change shortages that afflicted much of rural India when the colonial government's coin production could not keep pace with wartime metal demand. They circulated on local trust, not legal authority.
The official stamp is the sole authentication device — without it the coupon had no value whatsoever. Unstamped examples exist and are essentially waste paper.