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Rice purchase coupons Licheng Town, Liyang City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Licheng Town Grain Authority, Liyang City, Jiangsu |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and black on a cream ground with a faint letterpress underprint of Latin-script text reading 'LIYANG'. To the left, a black vignette renders a traditional Chinese multi-tiered pavilion set among stylised clouds and foliage. To the right, a green vignette of a tied sheaf of rice ears is printed alongside the large red denomination characters 半公斤 (half kilogram), with a red octagonal stamp bearing the character 米 (rice) in the upper right corner. The lower register is occupied by a red decorative band with chevron ornaments flanking the year '1992', with the validity inscriptions 年内使用 (valid within the year) and 隔年作废 (expires the following year) on either side. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red on a light grey ground. A double-rule decorative border with repeated floral and foliate ornaments frames the entire face. At centre, the heading 使用说明 (Instructions for Use) appears in large characters, below which four numbered clauses are set in smaller type. A large circular official red seal is applied over the text at centre, partially obscuring several characters. |
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Township-level grain coupons of this type were a direct product of China's two-track rationing system, which persisted in many rural counties long after urban residents had largely transitioned away from state-administered grain allocation. By 1992, national rice rationing was already being dismantled at the provincial level, but individual township grain stations retained practical authority to issue local purchase coupons well into the mid-1990s — often because local stocks were managed independently of the provincial supply chain. Licheng's coupons belong to that administrative twilight period.
The official seal impression is the only meaningful anti-counterfeiting measure, which was entirely typical for instruments of this administrative tier and geographic remove.