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1 Liang - Cooking Oil Stamp Qingjiang, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Qingjiang City Grain and Oil Bureau |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Currency | Renminbi (1949-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 清江市食油券 清江市粮油券专用章 壹两 1975 (Translation: Qingjiang City Edible Oil Coupons Qingjiang City Grain and Oil Coupon Stamp One Liang 1975) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on a plain light ground, the reverse is enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with decorative corner pieces. The character 油 (oil) appears in a hexagonal vignette at each lateral margin. The interior is occupied entirely by three numbered clauses under the heading 使用说明 (Instructions for Use), set in neat hand-cut letterpress type, detailing the conditions of use, restrictions to authorised grain and oil supply stations, and prohibitions against speculation or alteration. |
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Chinese local ration stamps from the Maoist period are among the most documentation-dense of all paper ephemera — each one encoding not just a commodity entitlement but the precise administrative unit responsible for its distribution. The Qingjiang City Grain and Oil Bureau operated under the dual-track rationing system that governed edible oils from the early 1950s until well into the reform era, issuing stamps tied to registered household grain books. One liang — one-sixteenth of a jin — represents the kind of fractional denomination that only makes sense when monthly cooking oil allocations for an entire family might be measured in a few hundred grams.
Qingjiang was redesignated as Huai'an City in 2001.