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3-Person Stamp - Cooking Oil Yizheng City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Yizheng City Grain Bureau, Jiangsu Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light grey coupon with a floral-pattern underprint throughout. To the left, a black letterpress vignette renders an industrial facility with multi-storey buildings, smokestacks, and pipeline infrastructure. The title inscription 仪征市定额购油券 runs horizontally across the upper right. Centre-right, the denomination 叁人券 is printed in bold green characters over a gold wheat-sheaf vignette. A horizontal green decorative band along the lower edge, incorporating a geometric guilloche border, frames the date 一九九一 in a central cartouche. |
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| Obverse lettering | 仪征市定额购油券 叁人券 一九九一 (Translation: Yizheng City Fixed-Quota Oil Purchase Coupon Three-Person Coupon 1991) |
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Chinese grain bureau ration coupons of the early 1990s occupy an odd historical position — issued just as the national rationing system was collapsing. The State Council formally abolished the unified grain rationing system in 1993, meaning coupons like this one from Yizheng's municipal grain bureau had a functional lifespan measured in months, not years. Many were never redeemed before the system was wound up.
The "3-person" designation indicates household size classification, a practice used by local bureaus to allocate cooking oil allotments by registered family unit rather than per capita — an administrative distinction that varied significantly from county to county.