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1 Shi Liang - Shandong Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Shandong Province Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Value | 1 Shi Liang |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a combine harvester at work across a wheat field, rendered in red-brown letterpress print against a fine geometric guilloche underprint. To the upper right, the denomination 壹市两 is set in large bold characters beside a decorative green grain-stalk vignette. The numeral 0.1 appears at lower left, with the year 1978 inscribed along the bottom border within an ornamental frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-brown on plain paper, enclosed within a rectangular ornamental border with decorative corner devices. A central text panel carries the heading 山东省粮票说明 followed by three numbered clauses of usage instructions, overlaid by a circular red official seal. The denomination 0.1 is repeated in numerals within framed cartouches at both left and right margins. |
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Chinese provincial food stamps (liangpiao) sit outside conventional notaphily but have attracted serious collector attention since the 1990s. Shandong's grain ration coupons from the late 1970s represent the system near its administrative peak — the national rationing apparatus, introduced in 1955, would persist until 1993, but by 1978 the bureaucratic infrastructure producing these coupons had become enormously elaborate, with each province, prefecture, county, and work unit often issuing distinct series.
The 1 shi liang denomination equals one-tenth of a jin, a unit retained specifically for grain rationing arithmetic. Shandong issues from this period are among the more systematically collected, owing to the province's size and the relative variety of its coupon types.