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0.05 Kilogram - Flour Stamp Harbin City, Heilongjiang
| Issuer | Harbin City Grain Bureau, Heilongjiang |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured voucher printed in rose-red with a fine crackle-pattern underprint. A vignette at left centre shows an industrial riverside scene with a crane or dock structure. The denomination 0.05公斤 (一市两) is set within a central guilloche cartouche, with ornamental corner scrollwork and the year 1991 in a ruled panel at foot; value numeral 0.05 repeated at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1.本票只限在哈尔滨市区使用。 2.本票以成品粮为单位，可按粮食局规定购买面粉制品，半成品或持证到粮店购买面粉。 3.本票严禁买卖，涂改无效、遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for use 1. Food Stamp can only be used in Harbin city district. 2. The food stamp can be used to purchase flour products in accordance with the provisions of the Grain Bureau or with a certificate to purchase flour in grain shops. 3. Food stamps are strictly prohibited from buying or selling; altered stamps are invalid, lost stamps will not be reissued.) |
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Grain ration coupons of this type were issued by municipal and county-level grain bureaus across China under the centralized rationing system administered by the Ministry of Grain. By 1991, that system was already in its terminal phase — national grain rationing was formally abolished in 1993 — making late-issue coupons like this one products of a bureaucracy winding down, still printing and distributing scrip for a program with only months of institutional life remaining.
Harbin's grain bureau coupons from this period are among the more perishable survivors of the system: printed cheaply, used quickly, and rarely retained.