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1 Kilogram - Cooking Oil Food Stamp Shangqiu, Henan
| Issuer | Shangqiu City Grain Bureau (商丘市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress voucher with an ornate guilloche border at top and bottom. A central orange floral vignette underprint carries the bold blue denomination characters, with the year 1991 below. At the foot, a fine-line intaglio-style vignette of a multi-storey building with a clock tower is printed in dark blue, above the issuer name. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本票只限在本市流通使用，出市无效。 二、本票在本市粮食局购买所供食油品种。 三、本票为无价证券，严禁买卖、伪造，遗失不补。 |
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Chinese municipal food coupons of this type were administered through local grain bureaus operating under the broader rationing infrastructure that the People's Republic maintained from the 1950s onward. By 1991, that system was visibly unraveling — national grain coupon abolition came in 1993 — making late-issue municipal stamps like this one products of a bureaucracy already in the process of being dismantled. Shangqiu, a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan, issued commodity-specific coupons through its grain bureau rather than the commercial bureau, which occasionally causes misclassification in collections.
Cooking oil allocations were administered separately from grain rations and typically issued on a per-household basis tied to residency registration. A one-kilogram denomination is consistent with monthly household entitlements of the period.