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50 Grams - Food Stamp Shishou City, Hubei
| Issuer | Shishou City Grain Bureau, Hubei Province |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress vignette of a wooded hillside with a pagoda at the summit, centre-right; denomination '50克' and traditional equivalent '壹市两' in red at left. A circular red official seal overprints the upper centre. Decorative foliate border strip runs along the lower edge, flanking the year '1989年' in green. |
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| Reverse lettering | 一、本票在全市范围内，可购买粮食及各种粮食制成品。 二、购买粮食时，均按粮食部门规定的供应品种购买。 三、本票严禁买卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 (Translation: 1. This coupon may be used to purchase grain and all types of grain products within the city limits. 2. When purchasing grain, purchases must conform to the supply varieties stipulated by the grain authority. 3. Trading of this coupon is strictly forbidden; alterations render it void and losses will not be replaced.) |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments, not currency — issued by local grain bureaus under the state rationing system that persisted in parts of China well into the early 1990s. Shishou, a county-level city on the Yangtze in southern Hubei, would have used these to control flour or grain allocation at the household level. The 50-gram denomination is among the smallest in common municipal issue, reflecting how precisely the system tracked entitlements.
National grain rationing was formally abolished in 1993, making 1989 one of the final years of full systemic operation before regional wind-downs began.