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250 Grams - Ripe Grains Stamp Jinzhou City, Liaoning
| Issuer | Jinzhou City Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 250 100 錦州市粮食熟食票 250 贰佰伍拾克 1990 (Translation: 250 Jinzhou City Flour made Cooked Food Ration Coupon 250 Two Hundred Fifty Grams 1990) |
| Reverse description | Blue ground with blue letterpress text; a pink central panel carries the usage regulations, with a red circular official seal bearing a central star applied over the panel. Denomination numerals flank the panel at left and right. |
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Grain ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments, not currency — issued by municipal grain bureaus under the planned distribution system that required urban residents to exchange coupons for staple foods at state-run shops. By 1990, China's dual-track reform had already introduced market mechanisms for many goods, but grain remained under quota control in most northern cities, Jinzhou included. The Liaoning province system was slower to liberalize than coastal regions, so local bureau coupons continued circulating well into the early 1990s.
National grain rationing was formally abolished in 1993, rendering the entire category obsolete almost overnight. Most coupons were discarded; survival rates are low.