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Fuel Ration - 5 Gallon Ration Coupon
| Issuer | Commonwealth of Australia |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Size | 60 x 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Purple letterpress coupon with the Commonwealth of Australia Coat of Arms at centre-top, flanked by the authority title above and below. The denomination "5 FIVE GALLONS" appears on both left and right of the central date panel. A usage instruction legend occupies the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is plain unprinted paper, without any design, text, or security features. |
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Australia's postwar petrol rationing scheme outlasted the war itself by several years — civilian fuel controls introduced in 1940 remained in force until 1950, a prolonged restriction that generated enormous quantities of coupon scrip administered through the Liquid Fuel Control Board. The 1948 coupons fall squarely in that twilight period, when rationing had become a peacetime bureaucratic fixture rather than a wartime necessity, and public resentment was considerable.
Each coupon represented an entitlement rather than a currency unit, which creates interesting questions for collectors about how to classify and catalog them — they circulated, were transferred, and were occasionally forged.