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1 Shi Jin - Flour Food Stamp Ebian County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Ebian Yi Autonomous County Grain Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned paper with orange security underprint; central vignette of a city scene flanked by Chinese inscription panels. Denomination in large Chinese characters at centre, county name and year 1979 printed in dark pink letterpress ink. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink paper with a fine wavy-line guilloche background filling the entire field; a circular official Grain Bureau chop stamp is impressed at centre. Three numbered usage regulations in Chinese characters are printed in dark pink ink under the header 使用说明. |
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Chinese food rationing stamps of this type were issued under the state grain allocation system that remained in force across most of rural China until the early 1990s. County-level grain bureaus operated with considerable autonomy in their local coupon designs and denominations — a "shi jin" unit (市斤, equivalent to 500 grams) was the standard measure for flour allocations at this administrative level. Ebian Yi Autonomous County, established in 1984, was still operating under its earlier administrative designation when this stamp was printed.