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2 Shi Jin - Grain Food Stamps Libao District, Nantong City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Libao District Grain Management Office (李堡区粮管所), Nantong City, Jiangsu |
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| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper with all text and design elements printed in blue. The issuer name and denomination numeral 贰 appear across the top, with the voucher type inscription centred below. The lower half bears the large denomination legend 贰市斤 flanked on each side by two stylised grain-sheaf vignettes with decorative scroll borders; the year 一九八二年 is set within a wavy-rule panel at foot. A circular numeral ② appears at upper left, and a purple cancellation chop is applied to the centre. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream paper; show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is faintly visible. A purple ink stamp has been applied to the centre of the reverse, consistent with an administrative cancellation mark. |
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Chinese grain ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments issued at the sub-county district level, not by any banking authority. The Libao District Grain Management Office operated under the national rationing framework that had governed food distribution since the mid-1950s, allocating grain entitlements to registered residents whose household registration — the hukou — determined exactly what they could claim and where. A coupon issued in Libao was worthless in the next district over.
By 1982 the system was already fraying at the edges, as rural decollectivization under the household responsibility reforms was quietly undermining the logic of centralized grain control. Coupons from this transitional window are often scarcer than those from the height of rationing precisely because production volumes were erratic and administrative record-keeping inconsistent at the district level.