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2 Yuan Guizhou Province Second Prison
| Issuer | Guizhou Province Second Prison |
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| Year | 1963 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on plain paper with a simple rectangular border. The denomination 貳元 is printed in large characters at centre, with the institution name and voucher type above; red official seals and a red serial number appear in the lower portion. The note carries two lines of restrictive text and is dated 一九六三年. |
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| Obverse lettering | 贵州省第二监狱 犯人购物券 贰元 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. Two 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 functioned as a controlled internal currency — inmates received it as compensation for labor and could spend it only within the facility's canteen or commissary system, preventing the accumulation of regular renminbi behind bars. The Guizhou Province Second Prison (贵州省第二监狱) operated under the laogai system, and its scrip issues from the early 1960s are among the more obscure survivals of that network's internal economy.
1963 places this note squarely in the aftermath of the Great Leap Forward's economic collapse, when even prison enterprise output was being pressed into national recovery targets. Few examples of facility-level scrip from this period made it outside institutional archives.