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1 Shi Liang - Grain Coupon Zhangqiu County, Shandong
| Issuer | Zhangqiu County Grain Bureau, Shandong Province |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress print on a light guilloche underprint, enclosed within a decorative foliate and geometric border. The reverse carries the coupon usage regulations in two numbered clauses under the heading 章丘县粮食副券说明, with circular denomination panels reading 0.1 at both left and right margins. A red circular official stamp with a five-pointed star, applied post-printing, is visible at centre, accompanied by a red handwritten cancellation character. |
| Reverse lettering | 章丘县粮食副券说明 1.凭本券和山东省粮票、金国粮票在本县购买粮食及主食制成品 2.本券不准买卖、涂改无效、遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for Zhangqiu County Grain Supplementary Coupons: 1. This coupon, together with Shandong Province grain coupons and national grain coupons, may be used to purchase grain and staple food products within this county. 2. This coupon is non-transferable, alterations render it void, and it will not be replaced if lost.) |
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Grain coupons of this type were administrative instruments, not currency — issued by county-level grain bureaus under the state rationing system that had governed food distribution in China since the 1950s. By 1990, that system was already being wound down nationally, and Shandong Province phased out grain rationing entirely in the early 1990s. A coupon issued this late in the program would have had a short functional life before the bureau's authority to redeem it simply ceased to exist.
Zhangqiu was still a county in 1990, elevated to county-level city status in 1992. Local grain bureau coupons from this administrative level are far less systematically collected than provincial-issue ration certificates, and survival rates are poor — most were discarded when redemption ended.