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50 Grams - Cooking Oil Stamp Huojia County, Henan
| Issuer | Huojia County People's Government, Henan |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | 说明 一、本券只限在本县流通使用，出县无效。 二、本券在本县购买所供食油品种。 三、本券为无价证券严禁买卖，伪造，遗失不补。 (Translation: Instructions 1) This voucher is valid for use within this county only; invalid outside the county. 2) This voucher may be used to purchase cooking oil varieties supplied within this county. 3) This voucher is a non-monetary certificate; trading is strictly prohibited, counterfeiting is invalid, and losses will not be compensated.) |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Chinese ration coupons of this type were administrative instruments, not currency — they entitled the bearer to purchase a fixed quantity of a controlled commodity at a state-set price, and had no exchange value beyond that single transaction. Cooking oil remained under China's rationing system well into the late 1980s, with county-level governments managing their own local coupon stocks independently of provincial or national schemes. Huojia County, a small agricultural county in northern Henan, would have printed and distributed these through its grain and oil bureaus.
County-issued oil coupons from this period were rarely preserved — they were torn, stamped, or surrendered at the point of purchase and discarded.