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Ration Coupon - 1 Gallon
| Issuer | Commonwealth Liquid Fuel Control Board |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress coupon on cream paper, with an orange guilloche underprint background. The Australian Commonwealth coat of arms appears at upper left within a banner scroll inscribed with the issuing authority. Large numeral "1" flanks both sides in orange with "ONE GALLON" below, and a central black cartouche bears the validity date. A bold instruction panel runs along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 3 (k) 397 81502 |
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The Commonwealth Liquid Fuel Control Board administered petrol rationing in Australia from 1940, a scheme introduced not primarily due to domestic scarcity but because of shipping vulnerability — tanker routes from the Dutch East Indies and the US Gulf Coast were genuinely exposed once Japan entered the war. By 1945, civilian allocations had been tightened repeatedly, and the gallon coupon represented the smallest transactional unit in a system designed to make every litre politically accountable.
Rationing was not lifted until 1950, making 1945 coupons mid-series rather than terminal — survivors exist in fair numbers simply because unspent coupons were routinely pocketed rather than presented.