¾ Anna WWII Cash Coupon

Jaisalmer was among the smallest and most remote of the Rajputana princely states, and its wartime cash coupons were purely a local administrative response to the acute coin shortage that affected much of British India during the Second World War. Base metal was being diverted to the war effort, and small denomination coinage effectively disappeared from circulation across much of the subcontinent between 1942 and 1945. Many princely states filled the gap with paper chits; Jaisalmer's series is notable for the fractional ¾ anna denomination, an unusual value that reflects the granular pricing structures still in use in desert trade economies at the time.