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2 Shi Liang - Industrial Oil Stamp Changde City, Hunan
| Issuer | Changde City Food Bureau (常德市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Size | 70 x 27 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.2 常德市工种专用油票 贰市两 1976 (Translation: Changde City Special Oil Stamp for works 2 shi liang) |
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| Reverse lettering | 一、凭本票在全市粮店均可购买各种食油。 二、购油时，按粮店规定的供应品种购买。 三、本票不准转卖，涂改无效，遗失不补。 常德市粮食局 |
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Chinese industrial oil ration stamps of this period were issued by municipal food bureaus operating under the national rationing system that persisted in various forms from 1953 until the early 1990s. Changde, a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hunan, administered its own local coupons separately from provincial and national issues — meaning this stamp was valid only within the city's jurisdiction and could not be redeemed elsewhere, a deliberate feature of the system designed to prevent hoarding through geographic arbitrage.
The "shi liang" weight denomination indicates an oil allocation measured in traditional Chinese units, a detail that places this squarely in the pre-metrication transitional period for commodity rationing in Hunan.