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1 Kilogram - Food Stamp Xinzhou County, Shanxi
| Issuer | Xinzhou County Government, Shanxi Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple letterpress design on plain paper ground, with a central vignette of a grain sack as the primary motif. Chinese inscriptions in purple and black inks identify the issuing county authority and denomination, with the expiry date printed below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 新洲县非农业口粮券 壹公斤 九三年三月三十日止 (Translation: Xinzhou County Food Stamp 1 Gong Jin Use through March 31, 1993) |
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Chinese county-level food coupons of the early 1990s occupy an oddly specific moment in economic history. The national grain rationing system — in operation since 1955 — was being wound down province by province through the early 1990s, and Shanxi was among the last holdouts. Xinzhou County continued issuing local commodity coupons well past the point where coastal provinces had abandoned them entirely, reflecting both inland distribution realities and local administrative inertia.
By 1993 these were effectively obsolete instruments at the moment of printing. National abolition of the grain coupon system followed in 1994.