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300 Fen Shanxi Province First Prison
| Issuer | Shanxi Province First Prison |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Orange letterpress print on cream paper, the entire field filled with a dense lace-pattern guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral 300 occupies the centre within a decorative cartouche, with the romanized issuer title above and voucher designation below. Restrictive-use inscriptions appear in vertical panels at left and right, and a red circular handstamp is applied across the centre. |
| Reverse lettering | SHANXISHENG DI-1 JIANYU 300 FANREN GOUHUOZHEN 只限犯人 監內使用 不得外傳 禁止借用 1959 (Translation: Shanxi Province First Prison. Inmate purchase goods voucher. For use inside the prison only. Restricted to inmates only. Borrowing is prohibited. Transferring outside is forbidden.) |
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Chinese prison scrip from the late 1950s occupies a genuinely obscure corner of notaphily. This note was issued by Shanxi Province First Prison — laogai facilities in the People's Republic routinely issued internal scrip during this period, allowing inmates to purchase approved goods within the facility while preventing any real currency from circulating inside. The system also served administrative purposes: tracking and controlling purchasing power at the individual level.
Surviving examples are rare simply because the scrip had no life outside the walls. Most was destroyed or confiscated at release.