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1 Shi Liang - Food Stamp Guohu Farm, Hubei
| Issuer | Guohu Farm, Hubei Province |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.1 湖北省国湖农场购粮券 壹市两 (Translation: Food coupons for Guohu Farm in Hubei Province 1 Shi Liang (50 grams)) |
| Reverse description | Plain pale pink paper with show-through impression of the obverse vignette and lettering visible in mirror image. A faint red circular seal impression is discernible at top center. No additional printed design or text. |
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Chinese state farm food coupons (农场粮票) occupy a genuinely odd corner of notaphily. Issued outside the formal state rationing hierarchy, farm-level coupons like this one from Guohu Farm in Hubei were internal instruments — valid only within the issuing unit's canteen or supply system, effectively invisible to the provincial rationing apparatus above them. The shi liang (市两) denomination, one-sixteenth of a jin, suggests this was calibrated for individual meal allocations rather than bulk household rations.
Hubei farm coupons from this period survive erratically; many were pulped when the issuing unit was disbanded or reorganized during agricultural restructuring in the 1980s.