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10 Shi Jin - Flour Stamp Chengdu City, Sichuan
| Issuer | Chengdu City Food Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Size | 80 x 38 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 成都市面粉供应票 伍市斤 1983 (Translation: Chengdu Flour Stamp 10 Shi Jin (5 Kilograms) 1983) |
| Reverse description | Red and purple ink on pale paper with a decorative guilloche border and corner rosette underprint. Three numbered usage stipulations in Chinese occupy the central field, overlaid by a large circular official red administrative seal of the Chengdu City Food Bureau. |
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Chinese food ration coupons of this type sit at an awkward intersection of fiscal and administrative history that conventional banknote catalogs tend to underserve. Following the 1953 introduction of the unified grain procurement system, local bureaus across China issued their own commodity coupons — not currency, but functionally indispensable. By 1983, the Chengdu Food Bureau was still deep in the rationing apparatus, years before Deng Xiaoping's reforms would begin dismantling it in the late 1980s.
Flour-specific denominations like this one were issued separately from general grain coupons, reflecting the administrative distinction between raw grain and processed commodities. Sichuan provincial coupons could not be used outside the province; municipal issues like this one were often restricted further to Chengdu alone.