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5 000 Grams - Fine Grain Food Stamp Mianzhu County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Mianzhu County, Sichuan Province |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of a traditional Chinese pavilion set beside a body of water, with a multi-tiered pagoda rising in the background. Intricate guilloche lacework frames the face value inscription on the right portion of the note. The date 1990 appears beneath the denomination. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1. 凭本券在县境内购买粮食和粮食制品； 2. 本券面额为成品粮； 3. 本券不准买卖、虚报、涂改无效、遗失不补。 |
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Chinese county-level food ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments, not banknotes in any strict sense — but they circulated as de facto currency within their issuing jurisdiction and are collected accordingly. Mianzhu County, in the Deyang prefecture of Sichuan, was still operating its rationing infrastructure in 1990, well into the reform period when most urban centers had already begun dismantling the grain coupon system. National abolition of the staple grain ration came in 1993.
The 5,000-gram denomination is among the larger unit values in county-level grain coupon series, suggesting institutional rather than household use.