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Care Coupon 1951, July
| Issuer | CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey paper coupon with letterpress text in Serbian Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Three detachable stub coupons at left, each labelled RAZNO 1, 2, and 3 with date VII-51. The main body bears a handwritten recipient name and an oval official ink stamp, with printed lines for address and entitlement basis. |
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| Obverse lettering | „CARE” - KARTA za raspodelu pomoći po programu „CARE” ZA JULI 1951 prezime i ime korisnika mesto ulica i broj osnov po kome dobija pomoć M.P. organa koji izdaje karte RAZNO 1 RAZNO 2 RAZNO 3 |
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CARE packages became one of the most recognized humanitarian instruments of the postwar years, and these coupons were the financial mechanism behind them. An American donor would purchase a coupon, mail it to a recipient in Europe, and that person could redeem it locally through CARE's distribution network for a pre-packed parcel of food or goods — bypassing both currency exchange complications and the chronic import restrictions still throttling European economies in the early 1950s.
Not a banknote in any legal sense, but collected seriously as scrip. The 1951 dating places this squarely in the Korean War period, when CARE was simultaneously shifting operations toward Asia.