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1 Shi Liang - Jiangsu Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Jiangsu Province Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Value | 1 Shi Liang |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.1 江苏省地方粮票 0.1 壹市两 一九七二年 (Translation: 0.1 Jiangsu Province Local Grain Coupons 0.1 One Shi Liang 1972) |
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| Protection description | Blue security underprint on obverse; rose-red guilloche wave pattern underprint on reverse |
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Chinese provincial food stamps (liangpiao) were not currency but allocation instruments — without one, even cash couldn't buy grain. The national rationing system that produced these was introduced in 1955 and remained largely intact until the early 1990s, making this 1972 issue a mid-Cultural Revolution artifact of administered scarcity. Jiangsu's grain bureau, like its counterparts across every province, printed denominations in units of weight — shi liang being one-tenth of a jin — calibrated to monthly household quotas that varied by occupation, age, and urban versus rural registration status.
The underprint security feature is modest by any standard, reflecting the real deterrent: counterfeiting a local ration coupon was a serious criminal offense, not merely a financial one.