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250 Grams - Sunflower Oil Stamp Siping City, Jilin
| Issuer | Siping City Grain Bureau (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本票只限南市内各粮油食品经营部购买粮油及制成品使用。 二、本票严禁买卖、伪造或涂改，遗失不补。 |
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| Protection description | Circular red ink official administrative stamp with five-pointed star applied to the reverse panel. |
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During the late 1980s, China's partial reform economy created a patchwork of local commodity rationing that persisted well after national grain coupons had begun to wind down. Municipal and county-level grain bureaus retained authority to issue their own supplementary ration stamps for goods beyond staple grain — edible oil among the most tightly controlled. This stamp from Siping, an industrial city in central Jilin province, authorized the bearer to collect 250 grams of sunflower oil, a crop dominant in northeastern China and subject to its own separate allocation from grain proper.
The official red stamp was the primary anti-fraud measure — no printing security beyond the bureau chop itself.