1 Shi Liang - Jiangsu Province Food Stamps

Chinese provincial food grain coupons — liangpiao — were not currency but ration instruments, administered through the state grain distribution system that ran from 1955 until its formal abolition in 1993. Jiangsu's series are among the more systematically documented, though the 1978 issue predates most Western collector attention to this material, and surviving examples in undamaged condition are less common than their relatively recent vintage might suggest. The coupons were used, folded, and discarded; preservation was not the point.