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20 Kilogram - Food Stamp Yizheng City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Yizheng City Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Yuan Renminbi (1949-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 仪征市定额购粮券 20 贰拾公斤 一九九一 (Translation: 20 Yizheng City fixed-quota grain purchase voucher 20 Twenty kilograms 1991) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unadorned save for a block of Chinese text setting out the conditions of use, arranged in four numbered clauses with a designated space for an official seal (专用章). The layout is purely functional, consistent with locally issued Chinese commodity vouchers of the early 1990s. |
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Chinese grain coupons (粮票) operated as a parallel rationing currency from 1955 until the system was formally dismantled in 1993. Yizheng, a county-level city in Jiangsu, issued its own local denominations through the municipal Grain Bureau — a common arrangement that resulted in thousands of distinct local issues across China, most produced in tiny quantities and rarely preserved in any quantity.
The 20-kilogram denomination places this at the heavy end of local grain coupon values, suggesting household or institutional bulk allocation rather than individual monthly rations. By 1991 the national rationing infrastructure was already unwinding, and many local bureaus were issuing coupons they knew would have a short useful life.