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50 Grams - Sunflower Oil Stamp Siping City, Jilin
| Issuer | Siping City Grain Bureau (四平市粮食局) |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Pink and green voucher with a guilloche underprint at left and a vignette of a multi-storey municipal building at right. The denomination 葵花油 / 50克 is printed in large Chinese characters at centre-left, with the numeric value 0.05 at upper left. A lace-pattern border runs along the lower edge, with the year 1987 in a central cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、 本票只限在市内各粮油食品经营部购买粮油或制成品使用。 二、 本票严禁买卖、伪造或涂改，遗失不补 (Translation: Instructions of use 1. The stamp is good for redeem in the city's grain and oil department for grain and oil products use only. 2. The stamp is prohibited for resale, forged or altered, no reissued if lost.) |
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A ration coupon rather than currency in any conventional sense — issued by the Siping City Grain Bureau to allocate vegetable oil during a period when edible oils remained under state rationing in much of northeastern China. By 1987 the broader commodity rationing system was contracting as market reforms accelerated, but individual municipal bureaus retained authority over locally administered staples, which is why coupons like this one continued appearing at city and county level well after provincial grain tickets had been phased out.
Sunflower oil was the dominant cooking oil in Jilin province, reflecting local agricultural output rather than national policy preference. The 50-gram denomination is notably small — roughly a single tablespoon — suggesting tight supply management at the household level.