Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Grain Bureau |
|---|---|
| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Yes |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Pink paper with a blue guilloche border. Mongolian script text occupies the left panel; Chinese usage instructions appear at right under the heading 使用说明, with a red circular official seal bearing a central five-pointed star at centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Official seal |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Chinese food ration coupons (粮票, liángpiào) were a product of the planned economy's distribution controls, in force nationally from 1955 until their abolition in 1993. Inner Mongolia issued its own provincial-level coupons separately from the national series — provincial coupons could only be used within the issuing region, which created genuine hardship for travelers and workers reassigned across provincial boundaries. The national coupons were marginally more useful but required exchange at local grain bureaus, a bureaucratic friction that generated its own grey market.
The 10 shi jin denomination is notably large for a food coupon — roughly 5 kilograms of grain entitlement — suggesting institutional or bulk-ration use rather than individual daily transactions.