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Flour Stamp Low Income Residents, Zheng County, Shaanxi
| Issuer | Zheng County Chengguan Food Rationing Authority |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper with black letterpress printing throughout. An official red administrative seal is applied to the face. The title inscription, denomination type, validity condition, and issue date are arranged in horizontal registers across the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, with unprinted plain white paper stock showing faint bleed-through of obverse letterpress text. |
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Grain rationing coupons of this type were administrative instruments issued at the county or sub-county level under China's urban food distribution system, which began dismantling nationally in 1993 but persisted in pockets — particularly in inland Shaanxi — well into the late 1990s as local authorities wound down obligations to registered low-income households at their own pace. A 1996 issue from a chengguan-level food office is late enough to be genuinely transitional: by this point the national grain market had largely liberalized, yet this coupon still functioned as a subsidy mechanism for residents who hadn't been absorbed into the cash-transfer replacements.
Plain white paper, no security features. These were never meant to outlast a single transaction.