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2 Shi Jin - Shanxi Province Food Stamp
| Issuer | Shanxi Province People's Government |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Obverse lettering | 山西省粮票 貳市斤 1976 (Translation: Shanxi Province Food Stamp Two Shi Jin (1000 grams) 1976) |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 1. 凭本票在本省范围内，可以购买粮食制成品及各种粮食。 2. 购买时，按省粮票全部兑现的该应品种购买。 3. 本票面额为贰市斤，每市斤为十新两。 4. 本票不准买卖，丢失无效，损失自补。 |
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Chinese provincial food stamps (粮票) occupied a strange administrative space — they were not currency, but in practice functioned as a second monetary layer throughout the rationing years. Shanxi's grain coupons were valid only within the province, which created genuine hardship for workers transferred under the *danwei* system who arrived without local ration books. The 1976 date places this squarely in the final year of the Cultural Revolution, when central planning had made inter-provincial travel logistically treacherous for ordinary people who depended entirely on local grain allocations to eat.
Shanxi issued denominations in *shi jin* (市斤), the traditional catty of approximately 500 grams, retained for rationing even as metric reform was officially promoted.