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1 Shi Liang - Qinghai Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Qinghai Province Grain Bureau (青海省粮食局) |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Blue ink letterpress on light paper. Title inscription at top, a farming vignette in the centre, denomination in Chinese characters below, and date at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 青海省地方粮票 壹市两 1975 (Translation: Qinghai Province Local Food Stamp One Shi Liang (50 grams) 1975) |
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Chinese provincial food stamps (粮票) were ration coupons, not currency — but they functioned with the authority of money in a system where grain allocations were controlled at every administrative level. Qinghai's stamps were issued by the provincial grain bureau under the national rationing framework that had been in place since 1955, tying every citizen's caloric intake to registered household location. A Qinghai stamp was worthless outside the province, which made inter-provincial travel genuinely difficult for ordinary people.
The 1975 date places this squarely in the late Cultural Revolution period, when institutional design on ration documents was kept deliberately austere. The official seal is the primary authentication device — forgery of grain stamps carried serious criminal penalties.