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1 Liang - Food Stamp Chengdu City, Sichuan
| Issuer | Chengdu City Grain Bureau, Sichuan Province |
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| Year | 1972 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown ink on brown-toned paper, the face carries the title inscription 成都市粮食供应票 across the upper register, with the numeric denomination 0.1 at left and the Chinese character equivalent 壹两 below it. A vignette at right renders a large dam or hydraulic engineering structure, characteristic of Socialist-era imagery celebrating industrial and agrarian achievement. The issue year 1972 appears along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一.只限在本市境内。 二、本票不得买卖、伪造、涂改和掉换其他票证。 三、注意保管,遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions for Use: 1. Valid only within this city. 2. This ticket may not be bought, sold, forged, altered, or exchanged for other tickets or certificates. 3. Please keep it safe; lost tickets will not be replaced.) |
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Chinese food grain coupons (粮票) operated as a parallel rationing currency from 1955 until the system was formally abolished in 1993. This Chengdu municipal issue from 1972 falls squarely in the Cultural Revolution period, when local grain bureaus printed their own coupons redeemable only within their administrative boundaries — a deliberate policy to prevent population movement and control grain allocation at the municipal level. Provincial coupons and national coupons carried broader validity, but city-level issues like this one were the most restrictive tier.
The 1 liang denomination — one-tenth of a jin, roughly 50 grams — was the smallest practical unit in the system.