20 Shi Jin - Fine Grains Stamp Kaifeng City, Henan

20 Shi Jin - Fine Grains Stamp (Kaifeng City, Henan) - obverse20 Shi Jin - Fine Grains Stamp (Kaifeng City, Henan) - reverse

© David Yee collection

Features

Location People's Republic of China
Period People's Republic (1949-date)
Type Paper vouchers › Ration coupon
Years 1983-1993
Value 20 Shi Jin
Size 94 × 42 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
225176

Obverse

Blue toned paper with dark blue ink
Title
Left: Farmers in field
Right: Denomination
Date

Lettering:
河南省細粮券
貳拾市斤
开封市
一九八三年

Translation:
Henan County Fine Grain Coupon (Henan Food Stamp)
20 Gōng Jin (ten kilograms)
1983

Reverse

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 Frequency
1983  61%
1993  33% I think this one was a typo. The chinese numbers on the note read 1983, and this page also says 1983 elsewhere

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