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2 Shi Liang - Shanghai Municipality Food Stamp
| Issuer | Shanghai Municipal Grain Bureau |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 0.2 上海市粮票 贰市两 1972 (Translation: Shanghai food stamps 2 Shi Liang) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on a pink diagonally-lined underprint, the reverse is enclosed within a continuous ornamental border. The heading 使用说明 (Instructions for Use) is centred at the top, followed by two clauses of regulatory text. Denomination numerals 0.2 appear in guilloche vignettes at both left and right margins. A red circular official seal with a five-pointed star is impressed at centre. |
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Shanghai Municipality ran its own parallel rationing system largely independent of the national grain coupon network, and these local stamps were non-transferable between provinces — a deliberate administrative friction that tied residents to their registered household location under the hukou system. The 1972 date places this squarely in the later Cultural Revolution period, when municipal grain bureaus operated under severe bureaucratic constraint but continued issuing ration instruments with remarkable consistency.
Two shi liang — one-eighth of a jin — is a notably small denomination, calibrated for fine-grained daily accounting rather than bulk allocation.