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1000 Grams - Coarse Grain Stamp Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Wuhai City Grain Bureau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 1000 Grams |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of a combine harvester operating in a grain field, evoking agricultural mechanization. The denomination "壹仟克 (壹公斤)" and the issuing authority inscription "乌海市市内粗粮券" are printed in Chinese characters, with the numeral "1000 g" and the year "1990" completing the face. The design is executed in a single-color letterpress style with a simple decorative border frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000g 1、持居民粮证到粮店领取本券，并扣等量粮。 2、本券只限本市范围内使用。 3、本券面额为成品粮。 4、本券严禁买卖、伪造、涂改无效，遗失不补。 |
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Chinese grain ration coupons — liangpiao — were issued by local grain bureaus at city, county, and sometimes district level throughout the planned economy period, functioning as the only legal means to purchase staple grains from state-controlled outlets. Wuhai, a coal-mining administrative center carved out of western Inner Mongolia in 1976, had its own municipal bureau issuing denominations calibrated to coarse grains —粗粮 — rather than fine grain, a distinction that mattered enormously in a rationing system where millet, sorghum, and maize carried different allocation weights than wheat or rice.
By 1990 the national grain rationing infrastructure was already collapsing under market reforms, making late-issue municipal coupons like this one short-lived in practice. Many were never redeemed.