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1 Shi Jin - Anhui Province Cooking Oil Stamp
| Issuer | Anhui Province Grain Bureau (安徽省粮食局) |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 安徽省油票 壹市斤 1973 (Translation: Anhui Cooking Oil Stamp One Shi Jin (500ml) 1973) |
| Reverse description | Cream paper with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint in brown. Usage instructions in Chinese characters arranged in three numbered clauses across the field, with a circular red official seal of the Anhui Province Grain Bureau (安徽省粮食局) at centre. Denomination numeral '1' in oval cartouches at left and right. |
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Chinese ration coupons of the Maoist period occupy an odd corner of collectibles — neither banknotes nor stamps in the philatelic sense, but something the hobby has quietly absorbed. Cooking oil coupons were among the most tightly controlled ration categories during the early 1970s, when provincial grain bureaus administered allocations independently, meaning denominations, formats, and validity zones varied significantly from province to province and often year to year.
Anhui's 1973 issues are notable partly because the province had been among the hardest hit during the Great Leap famine of 1959–1961, making oil rationing there carry a weight beyond mere administrative routine.