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M-1 meat coupon
| Issuer | Polish People's Republic (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa) |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a purple rubber-stamp impression applied by the distributor. The stamp reads 'POLSKIE LINIE LOTNICZE „L O T” / Oddział w Krakowie / ul. Basztowa 15, tel. 22-66-83', identifying the Kraków branch of the Polish national airline LOT as the issuing workplace. |
| Reverse lettering | POLSKIE LINIE LOTNICZE „L O T” Oddział w Krakowie ul. Basztowa 15, tel. 22-66-83 |
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Poland's 1989 rationing system was already collapsing when these meat coupons were printed. The M-1 designation placed this coupon in the lowest allocation tier — the monthly entitlement it represented had been progressively cut through the 1980s as shortages worsened and the black market absorbed an increasing share of actual meat supply. By mid-1989, the Solidarity-led government that swept the June elections inherited a rationing infrastructure that was functionally obsolete; the coupons were formally discontinued before most of this print run had any practical use.
The watermark is notably sophisticated for an internal commodity voucher — a reflection of how seriously the state took coupon counterfeiting during the shortage years.