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1000 Grams - Southern Counties Flour Stamp Sichuan Province
| Issuer | Nanbu County Grain Bureau, Sichuan Province |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | A letterpress-printed vignette at left depicts a stone arch bridge over a river with a townscape and trees in the background. The denomination 壹仟克 appears in large characters at right within a decorative floral underprint, flanked by pink rosette numerals '1' at each upper corner. A teal guilloche wave band runs across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 一、凭本券在全县、市，范围内购买粮食或粮食制成品。 二、本券面额为成品粮。 三、本券以仟克为剂量单位，每仟克为壹公斤。 四、本券不准买卖，伪造、涂改无效，遗失不补、 (Translation: 1. Use this coupon to buy grain or grain products within the county and city. 2. The denomination of this coupon is the finished grain. 3. This coupon is measured in kilograms, and each 1000 gram is 1 kilogram. 4. This coupon is not allowed to be traded, forged or altered is invalid, will not be reissue if lost.) |
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Chinese county-level grain bureaus issued commodity ration stamps denominated by weight rather than currency value throughout the planned economy period, and this Nanbu County example is typical of the local administrative apparatus that persisted well into the reform era. By 1988, national grain rationing was already being dismantled in coastal provinces, but inland Sichuan counties like Nanbu were slower to transition — local bureaus retained the authority to issue their own stamps, and the denominations reflected actual flour allocations rather than market prices.
Nanbu County sits in the Jialing River basin, historically a surplus grain area. The stamp's redemption value was essentially bureaucratic: flour, not cash, and only at designated state granaries within the issuing county.