500 Grams - Food Stamp Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

500 Grams - Food Stamp (Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) - obverse500 Grams - Food Stamp (Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) - reverse

© David Yee collection

Features

Location People's Republic of China
Period People's Republic (1949-date)
Type Paper vouchers › Ration coupon
Year 1991
Value 500 g (0.5)
Size 86 × 38 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
228726

Obverse

Purple toned paper with dark purple ink characters in Chinese and Mongolian
Title
Denomination
Airport building scene
Date

Lettering:
包 头 市 地 方 粮 票
伍佰克
(壹市 斤)
1991

Translation:
Baotou Food Stamp
500 Ke (500 grams)
1 Shi Jin (500 grams)
1991

Reverse

Instructions for usage in Chinese and Mongolian characters

Comments

This is a special type of food stamp, because it also has the Mongolian language on it. This is not uncommon, as Chinese money has seven languages on it, representing the seven primary languages spoken throughout China.

Mongolian script title:



Mongolian script usage instructions:

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1991 

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