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1 Person - Food Stamp Guiding County, Guizhou
| Issuer | Guiding County Grain Bureau (贵定县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| In circulation to | 1996 |
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| Obverse description | Plain thin white paper printed in yellow ink with Chinese characters indicating the title, denomination, validity terms, date, and issuing authority. A circular official seal in red ink is applied, bearing the name of the Guiding County Grain Bureau. The text specifies a single-month validity period with a note that the coupon is void after expiry. |
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| Obverse lettering | 贵定县粮票 1 1996 壹人票 2 过期作废 当月有效 贵定县粮食局制 (Translation: Guiding County Food Stamps 1 1996 One Person Ticket February Invalid if expired Valid for February Guiding County Grain Bureau System) |
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Chinese county-level food grain coupons (粮票) of the 1990s occupy an odd transitional moment: the national rationing system was officially abolished in 1993, yet many county grain bureaus continued issuing local scrip for years afterward to manage residual state grain stocks and subsidized allocations to registered residents. This piece is a product of that administrative lag — Guiding County still running its own supply system three years after Beijing ended the central program.
Printed locally on plain white paper with no security features, these late-issue county coupons survive in surprisingly small numbers. They were functional tools, not archived, and most were redeemed and pulped.