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1 Shi Jin - Cooking Oil Stamp Shandong Province
| Issuer | Shandong Province People's Government |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 1 Shi Jin |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple-brown ink on a light green guilloche underprint, the left portion carries a vignette of three agricultural workers harvesting crops in a field. To the right, the denomination 壹市斤 is rendered in large characters within an ornate floral rosette printed in gold and red tones. A circular red official seal with a central five-pointed star is applied near the centre of the coupon, and the year '1981' appears within a decorative border panel along the lower right. The title inscription 山东省食油票 runs across the top, flanked by the numeral '1' at each corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | 山东省食油票 壹市斤 1981 (Translation: Shandong Province Edible Oil Coupon One Shi Jin 1981) |
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Chinese cooking oil ration stamps occupy an awkward space in collectibles — officially coupons rather than currency, yet issued and controlled by provincial governments with the same bureaucratic weight as banknotes. Shandong's 1981 series reflects the tail end of the Maoist rationing apparatus, which had governed cooking oil distribution since the early 1950s. Oil was among the last commodities to be derationed nationally; the system was not fully dismantled until 1992–1993, more than a decade after this stamp was issued.
Provincial variation in ration stamp design and printing quality is considerable, and Shandong examples from this period are not especially scarce — survival rates were high because households frequently received more stamps than they could redeem.