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10 Shi Jin - Fine Grains Stamp Hebi City, Henan
| Issuer | Henan Provincial Grain Bureau (河南省粮食厅) |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink and magenta voucher with an orange guilloche rosette at left bearing the denomination '拾市斤' in red and '周口市' below. At centre-right, an intaglio-style vignette of two figures — a scientist holding an atomic symbol and a student — set against an industrial and technological panorama. Numerals '10' appear at upper-left and lower-right, with the title inscription '河南省細糧券' across the top and the year '一九八〇年' in a ruled panel at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 河南省細糧券 拾市斤 周口市 10 一九八〇年 |
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Grain ration coupons issued by provincial bureaus were a structural feature of China's planned economy from the 1950s onward, but municipal-level stamps like this one — issued through Hebi City rather than the provincial office directly — reflect the layered, decentralized administration of rationing in practice. Hebi was a relatively young city in 1980, having been established in 1957 primarily around coal extraction, which meant its grain distribution infrastructure was built almost entirely under the state rationing framework from the outset.
The "shi jin" denomination places this within the catty-based weight system used across all PRC grain coupons. These were non-transferable in principle, though enforcement was uneven.