500 Grams - Flour Stamp Siping City, Jilin

500 Grams - Flour Stamp (Siping City, Jilin) - obverse500 Grams - Flour Stamp (Siping City, Jilin) - reverse

© David Yee collection

Features

Location People's Republic of China
Period People's Republic (1949-date)
Type Paper vouchers › Ration coupon
Year 1987
Value 500 g (0.5)
Size 87 × 35 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
225131

Obverse

White paper with brown and black ink
Left: Type of food/Denomination
Right: Siping Martyrs Monument
Date

Lettering:
四平市浪食局居民口粮供应票
标准粉
500克
1987

Translation:
People's rationing food stamp for the Food Bureau of Siping City
Standard Powder (Coarse Flour)
500 Grams
1987

Reverse

White paper black and pink designs with black text
Stipulations of use in Chinese
Red official seal

Lettering:
使用说明
一、 本票只限在市内各粮油食品经营部购买粮油或制成品使用。
二、 本票严禁买卖丶伪造或涂改,遗失不补。

Translation:
Instructions for use
1. The stamp is good for redeem in the city's grain and oil department for grain and oil products use only.
2 The stamp is prohibited for resale, forged or altered, no reissued if lost.

Comments

Countless food stamp notes were printed in the 1970s through 1990s. Often tickets were used for whatever commodity was available, but rice was the foundation of the program, often giving these the slang term 'Rice Notes.'

Measurements are usually in 斤 ‘jin,’ or ‘city pound’ format. One jin = 0.5 kilograms. One kè = one gram. One gōng jin = one kilogram. 50 Kè = 1 Liang

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1987 

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