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20 Shi Jin - Food Stamp Jiangyou, Sichuan
| Issuer | Jiangyou County Grain Bureau (江油县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Size | 100 x 43 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 江油县购粮券 貳拾市斤 20 1980 |
| Reverse description | The field is covered overall by a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint in red, enclosed within a blue lace-pattern border. Three numbered clauses of usage restrictions are printed in blue Chinese characters across the centre, with a circular red official seal of the Jiangyou County Grain Bureau (江油县粮食局) applied at centre. A blue ornamental vignette at lower centre incorporates an oval cartouche bearing the year '1980'. |
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China's grain rationing system, formalized after 1953, persisted far longer in rural and semi-rural counties than is often assumed. Jiangyou County — in the Mianyang region of northern Sichuan — was still issuing locally-denominated food coupons in 1980, three years after Deng Xiaoping's reforms had nominally begun dismantling the command economy. These county-level grain bureau coupons functioned as parallel tender within strictly defined administrative boundaries; a coupon from Jiangyou was worthless in the next county.
The "shi jin" denomination places this squarely in the catty-based measurement system — twenty catties, roughly ten kilograms of grain entitlement.