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5 Kilograms - Flour Stamps Taixing County, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Taixing County Grain Bureau (泰兴县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress printing on pale blue paper with a light blue wheat-stalk underprint at left. The issuer's title runs along the top within a decorative border with scroll ornaments at each corner; a circular official seal of the Taixing County Grain Bureau appears at upper right above a flower-shaped numeral '5' panel. A horizontal band of repeating geometric medallions runs along the lower register, above the validity inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain cream paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental device. |
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Chinese county-level grain bureaus issued commodity ration stamps well into the reform era, long after national food rationing had begun its phased dismantling. Taixing County, in central Jiangsu, continued operating its own local grain allocation system into 1990 because provincial and county quotas were unwound on separate, overlapping schedules — not all at once. These flour-specific stamps represent the tail end of that process, when rice and general grain coupons were already being phased out but milled flour still required separate accounting at the county level.
The denomination in kilograms rather than jin — the traditional half-kilogram unit still dominant on most contemporary ration paper — is worth noting.