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50 Grams - Fine Grains Stamp Zibo, Shandong
| Issuer | Zibo City Grain Bureau (淄博市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Plain white central panel bearing three numbered clauses of usage instructions in Chinese, with a circular red official seal of the Zibo City Grain Bureau (淄博市粮食局) applied over the text. Denomination '50' appears in oval cartouches at both left and right within a purple guilloche border frame. |
| Reverse lettering | 一、凭本票在全市范围内购买细粮及其制成品。 二、本票面额为成品粮。 三、本票不准买卖，涂改无效。 淄博市粮食局 |
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Chinese grain ration coupons operated as a parallel currency system enforced by the hukou household registration framework — you could only redeem them in the administrative unit that issued them. Zibo, an industrial city in central Shandong built largely around ceramics and petrochemicals, maintained its own municipal-level grain bureau with independent allocation authority. This 50-gram denomination targets a single steamed bun's worth of flour, the smallest practical subdivision in daily rationing use.
National grain rationing was phased out in 1993, making 1991 issues among the last produced before the system's collapse. Bureau-level coupons from prefecture cities are considerably harder to find than provincial issues.