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!
1000 Grams - Flour Food Stamp Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
| Issuer | Wuhai City Grain Bureau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
|---|---|
| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1000 Grams - Flour |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse carries a fine guilloche underprint across the entire field in light grey-blue tones. To the left, a letterpress vignette renders an industrial facility — likely a grain processing or coal chemical plant — in dark ink with detailed linework. At right, the denomination 壹仟克 (One Thousand Grams) is set within an orange cloud-shaped ornamental frame, with the subsidiary inscription 壹公斤 (One Kilogram) below it. A decorative purple border with scalloped and lattice motifs runs along the bottom edge, incorporating the year 1990 within a central cartouche. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 1000g 乌海市市内面粉券 1000g 壹仟克 (壹公斤) 1990 (Translation: 1000g Wuhai City Flour Coupon 1000g One Thousand Grams (One Kilogram) 1990) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Chinese grain rationing coupons (粮票) were a product of the planned economy infrastructure built after 1953, when the state monopolized grain procurement and distribution. By 1990, the system was already fracturing — market reforms had been accelerating since 1984, and most urban areas were seeing parallel free markets undercut the ration system entirely. A municipal-level flour coupon from Wuhai this late in the program is a minor footnote to that unraveling: local bureaus continued printing and issuing coupons even as the national system lost coherence, and many were never redeemed.
Wuhai, a coal-mining prefecture-level city on the Yellow River, had a relatively small and industrially concentrated population, which likely kept print runs modest.