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2 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Qingjiang, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Qingjiang City Grain Bureau (清江市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned voucher with a fine guilloche underprint. A central oval vignette in brown bears the denomination 貳市斤 in large characters, flanked by two wheat sheaf motifs. Two red circular official seals of the Qingjiang City Grain Bureau appear left and right, with the title inscription above and year and numeral 2 in decorative border panels below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本券係无价证券，只限在本市范围内使用。 二、本券只限购买粮食及兑换粮票之用。 三、本券严禁投机贩卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 |
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Chinese municipal grain ration coupons of this period were not currency in any banking sense — they were administrative instruments tied to the hukou household registration system, entitling the bearer to purchase a fixed weight of staple grain at state-controlled prices. Qingjiang City, now absorbed into Huai'an prefecture-level city after the 1996 administrative reorganization, operated its own Bureau-level rationing infrastructure entirely separate from provincial or national coupon systems.
1979 places this squarely in the transitional moment between rigid Maoist rationing and the early market loosening that followed the Third Plenum of December 1978. Local grain bureaus still held full distribution authority, and municipal-level coupons like this one were non-transferable outside the issuing city's jurisdiction — unusable even in a neighboring county.
Survival rates for these low-denomination local issues are poor; they were printed for consumption, not preservation.