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Care Coupon 1951, June
| Issuer | CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pale green coupon with a left vertical panel divided into three numbered stubs (RAZNO 1, 2, 3), each dated VI-51. The main field carries printed fields for recipient name, address, and basis of entitlement, with a circular official ink stamp at centre. Text in Cyrillic and Latin scripts. |
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| Obverse lettering | „CARE” - KARTA за распоред помоћи по програму „CARE” ЗА ЈУНИ 1951 презиме и име корисника место улица и број основ по коме добија помоћ M.P. органа који издаје карте RAZNO 1 RAZNO 2 RAZNO 3 |
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CARE launched its coupon program in 1946 as a mechanism for Americans to send food packages to specific recipients in postwar Europe and Asia — essentially a remittance-in-kind scheme that bypassed the chronic foreign exchange shortages crippling most European economies at the time. By 1951, the acute starvation phase had passed, but the coupons had evolved into a broader aid instrument used to funnel goods through CARE's procurement and distribution network rather than direct package delivery.
These are not currency in any monetary sense and were never legal tender. Collectors typically encounter them in the ephemera and scrip categories, and June 1951 dating places this squarely in the Korean War period, when CARE was simultaneously expanding operations into East Asia.