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2.5 Kilogram - Food Stamp Chaohu City, Anhui
| Issuer | Chaohu City Grain Bureau, Anhui Province |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Size | 83 x 33 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本票面额为成品粮，限在本市市区内购买粮食或粮食制成品。 二、购粮时，按本市粮食部门规定的供应品种购买。 三、本票不准买卖、涂改无效、遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This voucher is denominated in processed grain and is valid only for purchasing grain or grain products within the urban area of this city. 2. When purchasing grain, buy according to the supply varieties stipulated by the city's grain authority. 3. This voucher may not be traded; alterations render it void and lost vouchers will not be replaced.) |
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| Protection description | Circular red official ink stamp with a five-pointed star applied on the reverse |
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Chinese local grain coupons of this type were administrative instruments issued under the rationing system that governed staple food distribution from the 1950s through the early 1990s. By 1989, the national rationing framework was already being dismantled in coastal provinces, but inland and mid-tier cities like Chaohu continued operating their own grain bureau coupon networks well into the reform period — partly from bureaucratic inertia, partly because local grain stocks genuinely required managed distribution.
Chaohu Prefecture-level city was abolished in 2011 and its districts absorbed into surrounding municipalities, which means the issuing authority no longer exists in any form. That administrative extinction makes attribution straightforward but replacement documentation essentially impossible.