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1 Anna Canteen change ticket
| Issuer | M. M. Yusuf & Co. |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Orange paper ticket printed in black letterpress. A large white numeral '1' serves as underprint across the centre, overlaid with a violet approval stamp. The upper field carries the denomination 'ONE ANNA' and the legend 'CANTEEN CHANGE TICKET'; the lower panel bears the issuer name 'M. M. YUSUF & CO., Approved Army Contractors' with 'ANNA' in large white underprint letters. |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE ANNA CANTEEN CHANGE TICKET M. M. YUSUF & CO. Approved Army Contractors. 1 ANNA |
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Canteen currency from the Second World War period, issued by M. M. Yusuf & Co. to facilitate small-change transactions in a controlled retail environment — almost certainly a military or labor canteen operating somewhere in British-administered territory, where coinage shortages during the war made low-denomination scrip a practical necessity. The 1 Anna denomination places this squarely in the Indian monetary system, where sixteen annas made one rupee.
These private canteen tokens almost never entered any formal cataloguing system at the time of issue, and the issuer left no significant paper trail. The orange stock was likely a deliberate color-coding choice to distinguish this denomination from others in the series.