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0.5 Shi Jin - Coarse Grains Food Stamp Hebi City, Henan
| Issuer | Hebi City Grain Bureau, Henan Province |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 河南省粗粮券 粗 半市斤 鶴壁市 一九八〇年 (Translation: Henan Province Coarse Grains Food Stamp Coarse Half Shi Jin (250 g) Hebi City 1980) |
| Reverse description | Green guilloche border with ornamental corner devices frames the reverse. A pink circular official seal bearing a red five-pointed star and the inscription 河南省粮食厅 is centrally placed. Usage instructions in Chinese characters appear to the right in vertical columns under the heading 明说. |
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Chinese local grain rationing coupons of this type were administrative instruments issued under the state's unified grain procurement and distribution system — not currency, but functionally indispensable. The "coarse grains" designation (粗粮) is the key detail here: these coupons entitled the holder specifically to non-staple rationed grains such as corn, sorghum, or millet, separately tracked from fine grain (细粮) allocations like wheat and rice. Hebi, a coal-mining city established only in the late 1950s, had a heavily industrial population whose grain rations were managed with particular rigidity by the municipal bureau.
1980 sits right at the edge of the reform period — within two years, household responsibility systems would begin dismantling the rationing apparatus that made these coupons necessary.