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1 Liang - Sesame Oil Stamp Zibo City
| Issuer | Zibo Municipal Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Currency | Yuan Renminbi (1949-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue on a cream ground, with a lace-pattern guilloche border running along the top and bottom edges. The title inscription 淄博市香油票 (Zibo City Sesame Oil Coupon) appears across the upper centre in bold Chinese characters. At centre left, the denomination figure '0.1' is enclosed within a rectangular frame, while the large Chinese characters 壹两 (one liang) are set within a horizontally ruled oval vignette at centre; to the right, a circular red official seal bearing a five-pointed star is impressed. The date '1982·10' is printed at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 淄博市香油票 0.1 壹两 淄博市粮食局 1982-10 (Translation: Zibo City Sesame Oil Coupon 0.1 tael (approximately 5.5 grams) Zibo Municipal Grain Bureau 1982-10) |
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Chinese municipal commodity ration coupons from the early reform period are poorly documented in Western catalogs, and this Zibo City sesame oil allocation stamp is a good example of why. The Zibo Municipal Grain Bureau issued these through a parallel rationing infrastructure that operated entirely separately from the People's Bank note system — denominated in liang (市两, the traditional tael weight measure), not in yuan, because the coupon entitled the holder to a physical quantity of oil, not a monetary value.
By 1982, national oil rations were being administered at the municipal level, and individual cities printed their own coupons with wildly inconsistent production quality. Zibo's issues from this period were printed in limited runs and rarely survive outside the region.