Anyone Know About Chinese Ration Cupons?

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kforbes862 New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 05/31/2011 7:55 pm I got these very small bills which I think are chinese ration cupons. I have heard about them before, but never had any before. Is that what these are? and what should I look for to know which ones are more valuable than others? Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16817 Posts	Posted 05/31/2011 9:30 pm The ones with the truck and the airplane on them are actual CHinese paper money from 1953; the "truck" is a 1 fen and the plane is a 2 fen - equivalent to 1 and 2 cents respectively. The rest - the ones with the red-star-in-circle on the back - are indeed food ration coupons, the equivalent of "food stamps" in America except that, under the pre-1992 planned economy, everybody needed them to buy food and other goods. Apparently, they were issued under national, provincial and local authority, in a bewildering array of varieties. Your one with the bridge is shown here as a 5 jin food coupon from Shanxi Province - a "jin" being about a pound, or half a kilogram. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1063 Posts	Posted 06/01/2011 10:48 am The stamps haven't changed much either, I have the same things on official documents this year! Report this Post to the Staff
Jay1234 Valued Member United States 379 Posts	Posted 01/01/2021 7:58 pm I know this is a super old thread but does anyone know if there is a Chinese food ration coupon catalog in English? Report this Post to the Staff
Collects82 Pillar of the Community United States 1316 Posts	Posted 01/01/2021 11:07 pm This thread predates my membership too. Here are some that I found in Guangzhou one boring Saturday afternoon as I wandered the streets and happened upon currency dealers in a little market. Fascinating pieces in how they operated communism at the time. The dealer was quite amused that a random white guy would buy a bunch of these old things. My understanding is there are gobs and gobs of types and most of them are rather worthless. Whatever random pieces I got that day are just the top of the iceberg or rabbit-hole, depending on perspective. Since most people lived on them for decades and China has over 1 billion people, they surely printed A LOT of this stuff. Edited by Collects82 01/01/2021 11:08 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Jay1234 Valued Member United States 379 Posts	Posted 01/02/2021 11:11 am Collect82: Most Chinese ration coupons being fairly worthless is pretty much my understanding as well. However I have a few hundred food and clothing coupons as well as one that I believe is for gasoline and am more trying to piece together where they are from and their exact purpose. that's why I was wondering about an English version catalog. I've found a few in Mandarin but that's not going to help me much! Report this Post to the Staff
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