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5000 Grams - Food Stamp Wuzhi County, Henan
| Issuer | Wuzhi County Grain Bureau, Henan Province |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pale green paper printed in dark green ink; left vignette shows a multi-storey building with a tower structure amid trees. To the right, the denomination 伍千克 is printed in bold black characters over a pink guilloche rosette underprint, with the equivalent weight (十市斤) noted below. The title inscription runs across the top, and a decorative border with geometric and floral motifs frames the year 1986 at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Pale ground with a dense pink wavy-line guilloche underprint filling the entire field, enclosed within a dark green decorative border of interlocking floral and leaf motifs. Two numbered clauses of usage instructions are printed in black Chinese characters, and a circular official red ink stamp bearing a five-pointed star is applied at centre. |
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Chinese county-level grain rationing coupons like this one were administrative instruments, not currency — issued by local grain bureaus under the national unified purchase and supply system that persisted in various forms from the early 1950s until full abolition in 1993. Wuzhi County, in the northern Henan plain, was a wheat-producing area, and bureau-issued coupons of this denomination would have entitled holders to a specific grain allocation from state-run distribution points.
By 1986 the system was already being dismantled piecemeal as market reforms advanced, making late-issue county coupons from this period short-lived in practice.