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1 Yuan Guizhou Province Second Prison
| Issuer | Guizhou Province Second Prison |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress print on buff paper with a double-rule border; denomination 壹元 (One Yuan) in large characters across the centre, flanked by red handstamp seals for the Accounting Officer and Correction Officer. A red serial number is printed centrally, with a further red circular handstamp overlaying the upper portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 贵州省第二监狱 犯人购物券 壹元 财会负责人 管教负责人 只准在监内供应站购物对外无效 一九六三年 (Translation: Guizhou Province Second Prison. Inmate shopping coupon. One yuan. Accounting Officer. Correction Officer. Only valid for purchases at the internal prison supply station; invalid externally. Year 1963.) |
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Prison-issued scrip in the People's Republic of China during the early 1960s occupies one of the more obscure corners of notaphily. These notes were not legal tender but internal exchange instruments — a controlled currency used within the labor reform system to manage prisoner purchasing privileges at designated facilities. The Second Prison in Guizhou province, a southwestern inland region, issued this yuan note at a moment when the country was still recovering from the catastrophic economic consequences of the Great Leap Forward famine.
Surviving examples are rare by nature. Institutional scrip of this kind was never meant to leave the facility, and most was collected and destroyed when redeemed or upon prisoner release.