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½ Shi Jin - Cooking Oil Stamp Shandong Province
| Issuer | Shandong Province People's Government |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Currency | Renminbi Yuan (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow guilloche underprint covers the entire field. To the left, a red intaglio-style vignette portrays agricultural workers unloading sacks from a cart in a harvest scene, with rows of cultivated fields receding into the background. To the right, the denomination 半市斤 is set in large red characters within a paired floral rosette rendered in blue and red; the issue year 1981 appears in a decorative cartouche at the lower right, and a circular official seal with a red star is printed centrally below the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.5 山东省食油票 0.5 半市斤 1981 (Translation: 0.5 Shandong Province cooking oil coupon 0.5 half shi jin (250 grams); 1981) |
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Cooking oil rationing in China persisted well into the 1980s, a remnant of the planned economy's grip on daily commodities long after other controls had begun loosening. Shandong Province, one of China's most populous, administered its own ration coupon system independently, which is why provincial stamps like this half-shi-jin oil coupon exist as distinct issues rather than unified national instruments.
These coupons were printed in enormous quantities but survived poorly — used at the point of purchase and discarded. The half-shi-jin denomination, roughly 250 grams, reflects the granularity of rationing at the household level.