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1 Paisa
| Issuer | Rajkot State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| In circulation to | 1948 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on buff paper stock, the note is enclosed within a decorative guilloche border with the inscription "RAJKOT STATE" repeated along the lateral bands. A central oval vignette contains a portrait of the ruling Thakur, flanked on either side by the denomination inscription, with Gujarati script legends set within cartouches at the top and bottom of the design. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted buff paper reverse, exhibiting the natural texture of the period stock with age-related foxing and toning consistent with early twentieth-century Indian princely state emergency currency issues. |
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Rajkot was a small princely state in Kathiawar, Gujarat, under British paramountcy — not an independent monetary authority in any real sense. Its wartime paper paisa issues were local necessity tokens, filling a gap in small-denomination coinage that the broader British Indian supply chain couldn't reliably satisfy during the early 1940s. Dozens of Kathiawar states resorted to similar measures, making individual attribution sometimes tricky when notes lack clear serial sequences or issuing officer signatures.
Survival rate for these fractional paper issues is poor — they were essentially spent into oblivion and rarely treated as worth keeping.