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250 Grams - Fine Grains Stamp Zibo, Shandong
| Issuer | Zibo City Grain Bureau (淄博市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 淄博市細粮票 250 貳佰伍拾克 (0.25公斤） 1991 (Translation: Zibo City Fine Grains Stamp 250 Grams (0.25 Kilograms)) |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground with an ornate dark brown guilloche border incorporating stylised floral and scroll motifs at each corner, with denomination numeral 250 in oval cartouches at left and right. Three numbered clauses of usage regulations are printed in Chinese across the centre, partially overlaid by a red circular official seal of the Zibo City Grain Bureau (淄博市粮食局). |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons from the early 1990s occupy an awkward historical moment — the national grain rationing system was being dismantled province by province, and many local bureaus issued their own coupons in the final years before the system collapsed entirely in 1993. Zibo, an industrial city in central Shandong built around its ceramics and petrochemical sectors, would have used these primarily for urban registered households, whose grain allocations were tracked through the hukou system.
Prefecture-level coupons from this period are substantially harder to find than provincial issues — smaller print runs, purely local distribution, and no organized preservation effort after the ration system ended.