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Care Coupon 1951, May
| 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 | Orange-red coupon with a fine guilloche underprint background. The left portion is divided into three detachable stubs labelled RAZNO 1, RAZNO 2, and RAZNO 3, each with a V-51 notation. The right field carries the title inscription, handwritten recipient details, and a circular official stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | „CARE” - KARTA za raspodelu pomoći po programu „CARE” ZA MAJ 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 coupons were not currency in any legal sense but functioned as a parallel remittance instrument during the early postwar years, when direct cash transfers to relatives in war-damaged Europe were complicated by currency controls and black-market exchange rates. An American donor would purchase a coupon from CARE, which would then arrange local delivery of food or goods — the coupon itself being the receipt stub retained by the sender.
By 1951, CARE had expanded well beyond its original 1945 mission of delivering surplus U.S. Army ration packages. The May 1951 date places this squarely in the Korean War period, when congressional scrutiny of foreign aid was intense and private organizations like CARE were actively promoted as a non-governmental alternative to direct state relief.
Collected today as ephemera rather than banknotes proper, though their presence in numismatic catalogs reflects genuine scholarly interest in the broader history of scrip and quasi-monetary documents.