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2.5 Kilograms - Food Stamp Yancheng, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Yancheng City Grain and Oil Supply Station (盐城市粮油供应站) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 2.5 Kilograms |
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| Obverse lettering | 盐城市区居民粮券 贰公斤半 2.5 1991 (Translation: Yancheng City Residents' Grain Coupons 2.5 kg 2.5 1991) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1.本券系无价证券,只限市区各粮店(点)购买。 2.本券面额为成品粮,购粮时按规定品种购买。 3.本券不准买卖,涂改无效,遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This voucher is a priceless certificate and can only be used at grain stores (points) within the city district. 2. The face value of this voucher is for finished grain products. Purchase only the specified varieties. 3. This voucher is non-transferable, alterations render it void, and it will not be replaced if lost.) |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments tied directly to the state rationing system that had governed food distribution since the 1950s. By 1991, that system was already being dismantled province by province as market reforms accelerated, making late-issue coupons like this one effectively end-of-era documents — many were printed in quantities that outpaced actual need as local stations scrambled to account for remaining allocations before the national ration system was formally abolished in 1993.
Yancheng, a mid-tier prefectural city on the Jiangsu coast, operated its grain supply infrastructure well into the reform period. The 2.5-kilogram denomination is atypical — most ration books used round figures — suggesting this was a supplementary or adjustment coupon rather than a primary issue.