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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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| In circulation to | Yes |
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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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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1.本票限在省内流通使用。 地方粮票 2.本票面额为成品粮,购粮时按规定供应品种购买。 专用章 3.本票不准买卖,严禁伪造,遗失不补。 0.1 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This coupon is valid for circulation and use within the province only. 2. The face value of this coupon is for finished grain products; purchase only the specified varieties as stipulated when buying grain. 3. This coupon is not permitted to be bought or sold. Counterfeiting is strictly prohibited. Lost coupons will not be replaced. 0.1) |
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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.