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0.5 Kilograms - Food Stamp Jingzhou Town, Hubei
| Issuer | Jingzhou Town Grain Management Office, Hubei |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 荆州镇粮食分拨证 0.5kg 1993年3月底过期 (Translation: Jingzhou Town Grain Stamp 0.5kg Expired at the end of March 1993) |
| Reverse description | Plain pale reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse vignette and stamp impressions; no printed design elements, with the obverse text and building vignette visible as a mirror image through the thin paper stock. |
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Chinese local grain ration coupons of this type were issued under the residual state rationing infrastructure that persisted into the early 1990s, even as market reforms were steadily dismantling it. By 1993, the national grain rationing system was in its final years — Beijing formally abolished urban grain coupons in 1993, making issues from that year transitional artifacts, printed and distributed just as the mechanism they served was being wound down.
Township-level offices like Jingzhou's issued their own denominated coupons independently, which means this piece circulated only within a tightly defined local administrative boundary. Few were preserved.