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1 Shi Jin - Cooking Oil Stamp Shandong Province
| Issuer | Shandong Province Revolutionary Committee |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Value | 1 Shi Jin |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and red on plain paper, the obverse is divided into two main zones. To the left, a bold red shield-shaped vignette bears a five-pointed star at its apex and carries a vertical Maoist quotation in yellow Chinese characters. The central and right portions are printed in green letterpress, with a black banner across the top bearing the title inscription in large characters; below, a central vignette illustrates an industrial tractor scene flanked by a stylised sheaf of grain on the right, all set against a fine guilloche-style line underprint. A circular red official chop of the Shandong Provincial Revolutionary Committee, with a central red star, is applied to the centre, and the denomination 壹市斤 and year 1969 appear in bold black characters to the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 山东省食油票 最高指示 必须把粮食抓紧 壹市斤 1969 (Translation: Shandong Province Cooking Oil Stamp Supreme Directive We must firmly grasp grain production One Shi Jin (500 grams) 1969) |
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Rationing coupons issued by provincial revolutionary committees during the Cultural Revolution occupy an odd space in Chinese notaphily — they are neither banknotes nor purely ephemera, but they functioned as the actual medium of exchange for controlled commodities at a time when centralized distribution had collapsed into regional improvisation. Shandong's revolutionary committee, like its counterparts across the provinces, administered cooking oil allocation independently, producing these stamps in the late 1960s to manage shortages that official statistics of the period simply didn't acknowledge.
The 1969 dating places this squarely within the most chaotic phase of committee governance, before Beijing reasserted tighter control over provincial rationing infrastructure in the early 1970s.