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50 Rupees Postal Order; Field Post Office
| Issuer | India Post (Department of Posts & Telegraphs) |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 50 Rupees (50 INR) |
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| Obverse description | The Ashokan lion capital vignette appears at upper left within a red guilloche border. Central text in Hindi and English reads 'INDIAN POSTAL ORDER' and 'TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POSTS & TELEGRAPHS', with the denomination 'FIFTY RUPEES / Rs. 50' in a central panel. Fields for payee, postage stamps, and issuing post office are printed in red letterpress, with a '50 PAISE' commission roundel at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | स-परकास्य / NOT NEGOTIABLE / भारतीय पोस्टल आर्डर / INDIAN POSTAL ORDER / TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POSTS & TELEGRAPHS / Pay to / THE SUM OF / Rs. 50 / पचास रुपये / FIFTY RUPEES / POSTAGE STAMPS / at the Post Office at / POSTMASTER / PAYEE'S SIGNATURE / पेसे 50 PAISE |
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The Field Post Office series of postal orders existed to allow military personnel stationed away from civilian postal infrastructure to send remittances home without access to a standard money order counter. The FPO network operated under Army Postal Service jurisdiction, running parallel to the civilian Department of Posts — meaning these instruments moved through a completely separate handling chain from ordinary postal orders of the same period.
The 1980 date places this squarely in the period when India maintained substantial troop deployments along both the western and northeastern borders following the tensions of the 1970s. Whether any given example saw actual FPO cancellation or was administratively voided is often the more interesting question with surviving specimens.