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Fuel Ration - 1 Gallon Ration Coupon
| Issuer | Commonwealth of Australia |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress-printed motor spirit ration ticket on plain paper stock. The Commonwealth of Australia coat of arms is centred at top, flanked by the issuing authority title, with the denomination '1 ONE GALLON' repeated on either side of the expiry date at centre. Usage conditions and endorsement instructions appear in small type at foot. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Australia's postwar petrol rationing scheme dragged on longer than almost any other Allied nation's — civilian fuel restrictions introduced during the war weren't fully lifted until February 1950, making 1948 coupons like this one products of a peacetime austerity that frustrated the public considerably. The Labor government under Chifley maintained rationing partly to conserve dollar reserves, a decision that became a genuine political liability.
The watermark on a coupon this small is a practical anti-counterfeiting measure rather than a prestige feature — black market fuel trading made forgery a real concern.