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½ Shi Jin - Cooking Oil Stamp Qingjiang, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Qingjiang City Grain and Oil Authority |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 清江市食油券 半斤 清江市 粮油券 专用章 1980 (Translation: Qingjiang City Food Coupons Half Jin (250 grams) Qingjiang City Grain and oil coupons Special seal 1980) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本券係无价证券,只限在本市范围内使用。 二、本券只限在粮油供应站购买食油之用。 三、本券严禁投机贩卖,涂改无效,遭失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for use 1. This bond is a priceless security and can only be used within this city. 2. This coupon can only be used to purchase cooking oil at grain and oil supply stations. 3. Speculation and trading of this bond is strictly prohibited. Alterations will be invalid and losses will not be compensated.) |
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Chinese local commodity ration stamps of this type are among the most overlooked ephemera of the planned economy period. Qingjiang — now Huai'an — was a significant distribution hub in northern Jiangsu, and municipal grain and oil authorities issued their own stamps independently of provincial quotas, meaning denomination structures and validity windows varied city by city. A half-shi-jin cooking oil allotment reflects genuine scarcity: at national per-capita allocations of roughly four to five jin of edible oil per year in this period, this slip represented a meaningful fraction of a household's monthly ration.
Unlike grain coupons, oil stamps were frequently soiled or stained in use, making clean survivors uncommon at the municipal level.