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5 Kilograms - Food Stamp Dancheng County, Henan
| Issuer | Dancheng County Grain Bureau, Henan Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Blue and pink coupon with a fine wave-pattern guilloche underprint. The denomination 伍公斤 is printed in large characters at centre-left within a teal rosette underprint, flanked by numeral 5 in ornate cartouches at upper corners. A vignette of a bull statue occupies the right side, with the year 1991 in a decorative border panel at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 说 明 一、凭本券在本县核定和市的担食或粮食制成品。 二、本券面额为成品新按规定品种购粮 三、本券系无价证券,严禁买卖、伪造和涂改,遗失不补 (Translation: Instructions 1. Use this coupon to buy food or grain products in the designated county and city. 2. The face value of this coupon is for purchasing grain products according to specified varieties. 3. This coupon is a valueless security. Trading, counterfeiting and alteration are strictly prohibited. Loss will not be replaced.) |
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Chinese county-level grain ration coupons of this period were administrative instruments, not currency — they entitled the bearer to a specific weight of grain from state-run distribution points and had no monetary face value. Dancheng County sits in the southeastern corner of Henan, historically one of China's primary wheat-producing regions, which makes a grain bureau coupon from here a locally meaningful object rather than a bureaucratic afterthought.
By 1991, the national grain rationing system was already being dismantled in coastal and urban areas following market liberalization, but rural counties in interior Henan lagged well behind. This coupon is a late-period artifact of a distribution infrastructure that would be formally abolished nationwide in 1993.