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1 Shi Jin - Grain Food Stamp Hefei City, Anhui
| Issuer | Hefei City Grain and Oil Bureau |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned paper with a pink guilloche underprint and olive-green ornamental border. Central vignette shows a scene from Bao Park in Hefei, flanked by denomination and title inscriptions in black Chinese characters. Issue year appears at lower portion of the design. |
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| Reverse description | Pink guilloche underprint enclosed within an elaborate olive-green letterpress border with decorative corner medallions. Three numbered clauses of usage regulations in black Chinese characters occupy the central text field, with a red circular official seal of the Hefei City Grain and Oil Bureau applied at centre. |
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Chinese grain rationing coupons — liangpiao — were not currency but carried real purchasing power in the command economy, where grain purchases required both money and coupons simultaneously. Hefei, as the provincial capital of Anhui, administered its own municipal ration system separately from provincial-level allocations, meaning this coupon was only redeemable within the city's own grain stations. Anhui had suffered catastrophically during the Great Leap famine of 1959–1961, and the rationing bureaucracy that produced notes like this one was in part a direct institutional response to that collapse.
By 1984, reform-era loosening had already begun to erode the system, and municipal grain coupons of this period were often printed in smaller quantities than earlier decades. The shi jin — ten jin, or five kilograms — was a mid-denomination in most local systems.