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1 Shi Jin - Fuel Stamps Xinyang, Henan
| Issuer | Xinyang County Petroleum and Coal Company |
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| Size | 70 x 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper stock with a repetitive zigzag-pattern border framing the entire face. The issuer's name appears across the top in large simplified Chinese characters, with the denomination 壹市斤 centered in bold type. A circular red ink chop of the Xinyang County Commerce Bureau is applied to the center, and the slogan 节约光荣 runs vertically at right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain cream-coloured paper with no text, vignette, or underprint. |
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Xinyang County's petroleum and coal allocation system operated through a network of local commodity coupons during the planned economy period, when fuel was a rationed resource distributed through state-owned commercial channels rather than sold freely. These stamps functioned as internal scrip — entitlements rather than currency — redeemable only through the issuing company's distribution points in Xinyang Prefecture, Henan.
The unit "Shi Jin" (市斤), a standard catty of 500 grams, anchors this firmly in the metric-adjacent measurement reform that the PRC standardized in 1959. Fuel coupons denominated by weight rather than monetary value are among the less-documented categories of Chinese local scrip.