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250 Grams - Food Stamp Xinzhou County, Shanxi
| Issuer | Xinzhou County Government, Shanxi Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 新洲县非农业口粮券 贰百伍拾克 九三年三月三十日止 (Translation: Xinzhou County Food Stamp 250 Kè (250 grams) Use through March 31, 1993) |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed in pale blue-grey with ghost impressions of the obverse design visible in show-through; the surface is otherwise unprinted and plain. |
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Chinese county-level food coupons of this type emerged from the tail end of the national rationing system — a system that had governed grain, cooking oil, and other staples since the mid-1950s. By 1993, most provincial and municipal ration programs had already been abolished following market liberalization, but numerous county governments in interior Shanxi were notably slow to phase out local controls. Xinzhou, a largely agricultural prefecture, retained localized coupon systems longer than many comparable jurisdictions.
Denominated by weight rather than currency, making it functionally a commodity certificate rather than money — though collectors and cataloguers have long treated these interchangeably with notaphilic material.