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1 Shi Jin - Grains Food Stamp Luyi County, Anhui
| Issuer | Luyi County Grain Bureau, Anhui Province |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Size | 90 x 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red-toned paper with dark maroon letterpress text and a central guilloche underprint; a greyscale agricultural vignette occupies the centre. The county title, denomination in Chinese characters, and year 1984 are arranged vertically within a bordered frame with rosette corner ornaments. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Chinese county-level grain coupons like this one were administrative instruments tied directly to the rationing system that persisted in the People's Republic well into the reform era — Anhui Province being one of the last to fully dismantle local grain controls. The Luyi County Grain Bureau issued these to manage entitlements at the sub-prefecture level, meaning this coupon would have been valid only within Luyi's jurisdiction, not exchangeable across county lines.
Anhui's grain bureaucracy had particular political weight given the province's devastating experience during the Great Leap famine of 1959–1961, when local cadres continued reporting inflated harvest figures under pressure. That institutional memory shaped how tightly county bureaus controlled distribution for decades afterward.