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10 Kilogram - Food Stamp Dangtu County, Anhui
| Issuer | Dangtu County Grain Bureau, Anhui Province |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned voucher with a floral guilloche underprint in pale red and ochre. A central vignette of a grain storage facility appears in yellow-ochre to the right, flanked by the numeral 10 at upper left and right corners. The title inscription runs across the top in bold black characters with the denomination in large black characters at centre-left and the year at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white ground enclosed by a dotted scalloped border. The left panel carries a blank field headed 月份 (Month) for hand-stamping. The right panel presents three numbered usage instructions under the heading 使用说明, with a circular red official seal affixed at centre. |
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Chinese county-level grain bureaus issued ration coupons well into the 1990s, long after the national grain rationing system had officially begun winding down. The central government formally abolished the state grain ration coupon (粮票) system in 1993, but local bureaus in many rural counties — particularly in Anhui Province — continued issuing their own stamps for months or years afterward, managing local distribution networks that had not yet transitioned to open market supply. This Dangtu County piece sits in that gap: technically post-abolition, operationally still necessary.
Anhui had been among the provinces hardest hit by famine during the Great Leap Forward, and the provincial grain bureaucracy remained unusually entrenched as a result.