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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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| Value | 20 Shi Jin |
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| Obverse description | At left, a black letterpress vignette presents an arched bridge with a large multi-storey civic building set among trees in the background; the numerals '20' appear in blue at upper left and upper right. The denomination 貳拾市斤 is set within a cloud-shaped guilloche cartouche with a pink border and pale green underprint at centre right, while the principal inscription 江油县购粮券 runs across the top. A continuous blue ornamental guilloche band occupies the lower margin, incorporating two rosette-enclosed '20' numerals at each end and a central oval medallion bearing the year '1980'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 一、本券只能在县境内指定地点，按当地规定品种购买粮食。 二、本券不能在市场上买卖粮食及其他粮食制成品。 三、本券不准买卖，逾期无效，遗失不补。 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.