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2 Paisa WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Chuda State |
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| Value | 2 Paisa |
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| Obverse lettering | CHUDA STATE THAKOR SAHEB BAHADURSHINHJI GENERAL STAMP |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a simple typeset design printed in blue. The numeral "૨" (2) is enclosed within a plain rectangular frame at centre, flanked on the left by a Gujarati character and on the right by the Gujarati word "પૈસા" (Paisa), together denoting the face value. |
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Chuda was among the smaller Kathiawar princely states in present-day Gujarat, and its wartime cash coupons were issued to address the acute small-change shortage that affected much of British India during the early 1940s. Japanese naval disruption of metal supplies and the wartime diversion of base metals to munitions production made token coinage impractical across dozens of smaller states simultaneously. Paper coupons at fractional values filled the gap locally, redeemable within the state's own limited commercial sphere.
P#S227B is catalogued as a distinct variety — likely a signature or color variant from S227A — though documentation on Chuda's coupon series remains sparse even in specialist literature.