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10 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Jiangyou, Sichuan
| Issuer | Jiangyou County Grain Bureau, Sichuan |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red on a white ground, covered overall with a fine repetitive wave guilloche underprint pattern. Three numbered clauses of usage instructions in simplified Chinese characters occupy the central area, specifying that the voucher is valid only at designated outlets within the county, may not be used to purchase non-staple foods or processed grain products, and is non-transferable and irreplaceable if lost. A circular official seal of the Jiangyou County Grain Bureau is impressed at centre. At the base, the year 1980 appears within a small ornamental frame. |
| Reverse lettering | 一 本券只能在县境内指定粮店，按当地规定品种购买粮食。 二 本券不能在市场上购买副食品及其他粮食制成品。 三 本券不准买卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 1980 |
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Chinese county-level grain ration coupons of this period were not currency — they were administered entitlements, issued under the unified grain procurement and distribution system that governed food access in the People's Republic from the 1950s through the early 1990s. A household's allocation was calculated annually by the local grain bureau based on registered population and work unit classification. The coupons themselves had no exchange value outside their issuing county, which is why provincial and national-level food stamps commanded far more practical utility during the rationing years.
Jiangyou, in northern Sichuan, was a significant industrial center by 1980, home to major steel production — the local grain bureau would have administered rations across a mixed urban-rural population under tight supply controls. The official seal is the only security feature because counterfeiting a local coupon offered almost nothing: it could not be spent elsewhere, and grain stations knew their own stock intimately.