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4 Kilograms - Standard Fertilizer Xiantao City, Hubei
| Issuer | Xiantao City Supply and Marketing Cooperative Grain Bureau (仙桃市供销社粮食局) |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed coupon on cream paper with a green decorative border enclosing all text. The issuing authority appears at the top in large green Chinese characters, followed by the voucher designation and year in smaller text; the denomination '4公斤示肥' is set in bold characters at centre. Three circular magenta official validation stamps are applied over the printed text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 仙桃市供销社粮食局 粮食奖售中价化肥票 （一九八八年度） 4公斤标肥 供应地点： （盖章有效） 供应期限：截止八八年十二月底 (Translation: Xiantao City Grain Bureau, Supply and Marketing Cooperative Grain incentive sales mid-priced fertilizer stamp (1988) 4kg standard fertilizer Supply location: (valid with stamp) Supply period: until the end of December 1988) |
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A commodity ration coupon, not a banknote in any conventional sense — though it circulates through specialist collections with the same seriousness. China's supply cooperatives issued tens of thousands of these local scrip variants during the planned economy's final decade, each redeemable for a specific physical commodity at designated state outlets. This one authorizes the bearer to claim four kilograms of standard-grade fertilizer, a allocation that tells you something about the granular level at which agricultural inputs were being rationed in rural Hubei as late as 1988.
The dual-authority format — supply cooperative and grain bureau jointly named as issuer — reflects the overlapping bureaucratic mandates that defined township-level resource distribution before market reforms fully displaced the rationing system in the early 1990s.