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1 Shi Jin - Shanxi Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Shanxi Province Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-toned paper with orange and gold underprint; dark blue Chinese characters denoting the issuing province, denomination, and year; grey-scale vignette of harvesting scene in the central field. Title inscription and denomination appear in bold letterpress above the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 山西省粮票 壹市斤 1981 (Translation: Shanxi Province Food Stamp One Shi Jin (500 grams) 1981) |
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Chinese provincial food stamps — liangpiao — functioned as a parallel rationing currency from 1955 until the system was formally abolished in 1993. Shanxi Province issued its own series independently of the national grain coupons, meaning this stamp was only redeemable within the province. A traveler crossing into Shaanxi or Hebei would have needed to exchange it at a local grain bureau, a bureaucratic friction that sometimes wasn't worth the trouble.
The official chop pressed into the paper served as the primary authentication device — forgery of ration coupons was a prosecutable offense, treated as economic sabotage rather than simple fraud.