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¾ Anna WWII Cash Coupon
| Issuer | Jaisalmer State |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | ¾ Anna |
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| Obverse description | A utilitarian wartime emergency cash coupon of primitive manufacture on plain buff paper, bearing a hand-stamped Devanagari text legend arranged in three horizontal lines across the centre. A serial number appears in the upper right area, with manuscript notation at the lower centre; no vignette, border, or decorative underprint is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | जी नम्बर जैसलमेर पोना दो आपाना |
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Jaisalmer was among the smallest and most remote of the Rajputana princely states, and its wartime cash coupons were purely a local administrative response to the acute coin shortage that affected much of British India during the Second World War. Base metal was being diverted to the war effort, and small denomination coinage effectively disappeared from circulation across much of the subcontinent between 1942 and 1945. Many princely states filled the gap with paper chits; Jaisalmer's series is notable for the fractional ¾ anna denomination, an unusual value that reflects the granular pricing structures still in use in desert trade economies at the time.