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½ Shi Jin - Cooking Oil Stamp Nanzhou County, Hunan
| Issuer | Nanzhou County Grain Bureau, Hunan |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper printed in dark pink and black with a central mountain vignette flanked by decorative floral corner ornaments. The title inscription appears at top, denomination in large characters at centre, and the issue year at foot, all within a guilloche-style border frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 南州县粮品 一、暂凭油券兑在本县食粮系统内购买食油，过期无效。 二、本油券系凭价证券，严禁买卖、调换，遗失不补。 |
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Chinese commodity ration stamps from the reform period are among the most overlooked collectibles in Chinese fiscal history. By 1984, the centrally planned distribution system for cooking oil was still fully intact across rural Hunan — households received allocations through their local grain bureau, redeemable against specific commodities at state-run shops. This stamp represents that rationing infrastructure at the county level, issued by an administrative unit with no banking function whatsoever.
Nanzhou County is now the core urban district of Yiyang City, reorganized in later administrative restructuring. County-level ration stamps were printed in small runs and consumed in daily transactions — survival rates are low precisely because they were used, not saved.