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450 Grams - Cooking Oil Stamp Jinan City, Shandong
| Issuer | Jinan City Grain Bureau, Shandong Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Renminbi Yuan (1949-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 济南市食油票 二季度 肆佰伍拾克 (0.45公斤) 济南市粮食局 本票季度有效 1993 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows only the ghost show-through of the obverse text and guilloche underprint visible through the thin paper stock, with no independent design elements present. |
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Chinese commodity ration coupons of this type were issued at the municipal level throughout the reform period, when central planning and market liberalization existed simultaneously and uneasily. By 1993, most urban staples had already been demonetized nationally, but regional grain bureaus retained authority over edible oils longer than almost any other commodity — cooking oil subsidies were politically sensitive in ways that rice and flour coupons were not.
Jinan's bureau printed and administered its own series independently of provincial or national templates. These hyper-local coupons were non-transferable by regulation, though informal trading was common in practice.