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500 Grams - Coarse Grains Stamp Huojia County, Henan
| Issuer | Huojia County Grain Bureau, Henan |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse description | Pink and red wavy-line guilloche underprint within a dark-bordered rectangular frame with a decorative scalloped edge. Three clauses of usage instructions in dark letterpress Chinese characters occupy the field, with a central circular red official stamp bearing a five-pointed star. |
| Reverse lettering | 说明 一、凭本票在本县内购买粮食或制成品。 二、本票面额为成品粮。 三、本票系无价证券，严禁倒卖、伪造和涂改，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions 1) This note may be used to purchase grain or grain-made products within the county. 2) The face value of this note is in processed grain. 3) This note is a non-monetary voucher; resale, forgery and alteration are strictly prohibited; not compensated if lost.) |
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Chinese county-level grain bureaus issued ration coupons like this one as part of the state's commodity rationing apparatus, which persisted well into the reform era despite market liberalization beginning in 1978. Huojia County, in northern Henan's Xinxiang Prefecture, administered its own grain allocation separately from provincial quotas — local bureaus printed and honored their own coupons, making these instruments non-transferable outside the issuing county and essentially worthless once the local harvest accounting cycle closed.
By 1986, national grain rationing was already under pressure from Deng Xiaoping's agricultural reforms, and most county systems were wound down before 1993 when the national grain coupon system was formally abolished. Huojia examples from this late period are scarcer than mid-period issues precisely because production runs were declining as the system collapsed from within.