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250 Grams - Food Stamp Xinzhou County, Shanxi
| Issuer | Xinzhou County Food Administration, Shanxi Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Size | 64 x 33 mm |
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| Obverse description | Golden and black letterpress design centred on a vignette of a grain sack, with Chinese inscriptions giving the issuing authority, denomination, and expiry date. A red official seal appears on the face, with fine security underprint elements in the background. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, plain paper with no design, lettering, or security elements. |
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Food grain ration coupons like this one were administered at the county level in China through a parallel distribution system that ran alongside the national currency for decades. By 1991, the national rationing framework was already being wound down in coastal and urban areas following market liberalization, but inland agricultural counties like Xinzhou in Shanxi Province maintained local coupon systems longer than most — the provincial grain bureaucracy was slower to relinquish administrative control than its counterparts in Guangdong or Jiangsu.
Xinzhou was elevated to prefecture-level city status in 1993, making county-issued coupons from the immediately preceding years a brief administrative artifact of a jurisdiction that was about to be reorganized out of existence in its original form.