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| Uitgever | Chinese Soviet Republic, Central Government Food People's Committee |
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| Jaar | 1934 |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Rectangular |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Black letterpress text on aged cream paper with a circular yellow overstamp at center bearing a hammer-and-sickle device. The denomination 八兩米票 (Eight Taels Rice Voucher) is inscribed in large characters below the issuing authority header, with five numbered clauses of usage regulations in vertical columns below. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Uniface; reverse is blank, showing only the aged, toned surface of the paper stock with faint ink bleed-through from the obverse letterpress impression. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Chinese Soviet Republic's grain voucher system operated in the Jiangxi Soviet base areas under severe material constraints. By 1934, the Nationalist blockade had strangled the Jiangxi Soviet economically, forcing the Central Government to issue commodity-denominated scrip — rice vouchers — as a parallel system alongside conventional currency, tying purchasing power directly to grain rather than a monetary abstraction the local population had little reason to trust.
The 8-tael denomination is an unusual fractional unit, suggesting these were calibrated to practical ration weights rather than round accounting figures. October 1934 brought the start of the Long March and the collapse of the Jiangxi Soviet administration, meaning the operational window for this issue was extraordinarily short.