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50 Jin - Forage Stamp Hanyang County, Hubei
| Issuer | Hanyang County Education and Food Bureau |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | White paper with red letterpress printing throughout. The issuer's title is inscribed across the upper register, with the denomination in Chinese characters at centre. An official red administrative stamp and the validity date are printed in the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | 汉阳县农村专用詞料粮券 伍拾折 汉阳县 教食局 1985 一九八六年三月底止 (Translation: Hanyang County Rural Special-purpose Food Voucher 50 Jin (25 Kilograms) Hanyang County Education and Food Bureau 1985 Until the end of March 1986) |
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Forage stamps — grain-equivalent ration coupons issued by county-level bureaus rather than the central government — proliferated across rural China during the 1980s as local authorities retained parallel distribution systems well after the peak of the national ration coupon infrastructure. Hanyang County, situated on the western bank of the Han River opposite Wuhan, operated its own food administration independently of the larger municipal apparatus. The joint issuance by an education bureau alongside a food bureau reflects a specific allocation mechanism: forage allotments tied to institutional populations such as school staff and students, not general household rations.
At 50 Jin, this represents a substantial single-coupon denomination — roughly 25 kilograms of fodder or grain equivalent.