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1 Catty 10 Taels Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank; Rice Voucher
| Issuer | Chinese Soviet Republic Central Government |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed uniface voucher in black on cream paper. Header bears a radiating star vignette at left and a hammer-and-sickle device at right, with a serial number in red above multi-column Chinese text regulations. A large circular red overstamp bearing the hammer-and-sickle of the Chinese Soviet Republic is applied centrally, with additional red seal impressions and a manuscript signature at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; reverse is blank. |
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The Chinese Soviet Republic, headquartered at Ruijin in Jiangxi province, operated its own parallel economy within the areas under Communist Party control between 1931 and 1934. This rice voucher — denominated in catties and taels rather than in currency — was a commodity scrip, not a banknote in the conventional sense. It functioned as a rationing instrument, entitling the bearer to a specific weight of grain from state stores at a time when the Jiangxi Soviet was under Nationalist blockade and suffering severe food shortages.
1934 was the terminal year of the Soviet base. The Long March began that October, and whatever stocks of these vouchers remained in Ruijin were almost certainly abandoned or destroyed during the evacuation.