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5 Jin - Cooking Oil Stamps Hengfeng County, Jiangxi
| Issuer | Hengfeng Grain and Oil Management Station (恒丰粮油管理站) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-blue paper voucher with black letterpress text. The issuer's title runs across the top, with the large denomination characters 伍斤 centred in the field. An orange circular official seal with a five-pointed star is applied to the left, a blue rectangular cancellation stamp reading 作废 to the right, and a validity notice along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 恒丰粮油管理站油票 伍斤 一九九二年十二月底有效 盖章有效 遗失不补 李暑媛 作废 皮和费 (Translation: Hengfeng Grain and Oil Management Station oil coupon 5 Jin (2.5 kg) Valid until the end of December 1992 Valid only with official stamped seal No reissue if lost [Personal name stamp: Li Shuyuan] [Cancellation: Voided] [Partial stamp: Pi He Fei]) |
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Chinese local commodity ration stamps of this type occupy an awkward category for collectors — neither banknote nor postage stamp, but documented by notaphilists because they functioned as a parallel exchange medium at the local government level. Hengfeng County sits in the Shangrao prefecture of Jiangxi; by 1992, national oil rationing had officially ended in most urban centers, but many rural county-level stations continued issuing their own coupons well into the mid-1990s, often years after the central system was dismantled.
The persistence of local issuance after central policy had moved on is the genuinely interesting detail here.