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500 Grams - Ripe Grains Stamp Jinzhou City, Liaoning
| Issuer | Jinzhou City Grain Bureau, Liaoning Province |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Red-toned paper with dark red letterpress text in Chinese characters. Central vignette shows a grey-scale pagoda scene flanked by guilloche ornamental borders. Denomination and date printed in the lower portion of the central panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、凭本票在本市范围内，购买面制熟食品。 二、本票严禁买卖、伪造、涂改。遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This ticket may be used within the city limits to purchase flour-based cooked food products. 2. Trading, counterfeiting, or altering this ticket is strictly prohibited. Lost tickets will not be replaced.) |
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Grain ration coupons of this type were issued by municipal and county-level grain bureaus across China well into the early 1990s, long after urban food rationing had been quietly dismantled in most coastal cities. Jinzhou, an inland industrial hub in western Liaoning, retained its local coupon system as central price controls on grain were only formally lifted nationwide in 1993. This particular stamp — denominated in weight rather than currency — entitled the bearer to purchase milled grain at the subsidized state price, a figure often less than half the open-market rate by 1990.
The official seal functions as the sole authentication device, which made provincial coupons notoriously vulnerable to counterfeiting during the late reform period.