25 Kilograms - Food Stamp Xinzhou County, Hubei

Chinese county-level food and commodity ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments issued under the planned economy's rationing infrastructure, which persisted in rural areas well after urban markets began liberalizing in the mid-1980s. Hubei Province's grain-distribution bureaucracy operated largely independently at the county level, meaning Xinzhou County's coupons were non-transferable outside its own jurisdiction — useless the moment you crossed into the next county.

The denomination in kilograms rather than currency reflects the direct-commodity model: this exchanged for grain by weight, bypassing price entirely. China's ration coupon system was formally abolished nationally in 1993.