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4 Liang - Oil Stamp Shangrao County, Jiangxi
| Issuer | Shangrao County Grain Bureau (上饶县粮食局) |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Size | 52 x 24 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 上饶县粮食局定量食油券 4季度 肆两 当季有效 遗失不补 1985 (Translation: Shangrao County Grain Bureau oil coupons 4th quarter 4 liang Valid for the current quarter, no reissue if lost. 1985) |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse showing a faint bleed-through impression of the obverse red official seal with five-pointed star at centre, with no printed design or lettering. |
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Oil stamp grain coupons from county-level bureaus occupy a specific and poorly documented niche in Chinese planned-economy ephemera. Shangrao County, in northeastern Jiangxi, ran its own grain distribution system parallel to provincial and national ration structures — the "oil stamp" designation marks this as an edible oil coupon rather than a grain-by-weight ration, the two systems being administered separately at the local level throughout the 1980s.
By 1985, market liberalization was already eroding the coupon system's practical necessity, though dismantlement at the county level lagged well behind national policy shifts. These local oil coupons typically saw short-run printings and near-total consumption in use, which accounts for the near-absence of county-level examples in systematic collections.