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2 Jiao Guizhou Province Second Prison
| Issuer | Guizhou Province Second Prison |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Value | 2 Jiao (貮角) (0.2 CNY) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in green on plain paper, with a rectangular border frame enclosing the face value '貮角' in large Chinese characters at centre. Two red handstamp seals appear at left, a red serial number runs horizontally at mid-field, and two smaller red handstamps at right denote the responsible officers. |
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| Obverse lettering | 贵州省第二监狱 犯人购物券 贰角 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. Two jiao. Accounting Officer. Correction Officer. Only valid for purchases at the internal prison supply station; invalid externally. Year 1963.) |
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Chinese prison scrip occupies an almost entirely undocumented corner of notaphily. The Guizhou Province Second Prison issued this 2 Jiao note in 1963 as internal labor compensation — a practice rooted in the reform-through-labor (laogai) system, under which inmates received nominal wages redeemable only within the institution's own canteen or commissary. These notes were never meant to leave the facility, which is precisely why surviving examples are so difficult to trace to specific prisons or date ranges with any confidence.
1963 falls within the immediate aftermath of the Great Leap Forward famine, when prison populations had swelled considerably. Attribution to the Second Prison specifically is aided only by the printed text itself.