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¼ cent - Arcola Advertising Club Arcola, Illinois
| Uitgever | Arcola Advertising Club |
|---|---|
| Jaar | |
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| Valuta | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Red cardboard stock with black letterpress text. The legend TAX TOKEN and ONE-FOURTH CENT appear at top, followed by Issued and Redeemable by in italic script, with ARCOLA ADVERTISING CLUB and ARCOLA, ILL. in bold capitals below. No vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | TAX TOKEN ONE-FOURTH CENT Issued and Redeemable by ARCOLA ADVERTISING CLUB ARCOLA, ILL. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Arcola, Illinois produced several local scrip issues during the Great Depression, when coin shortages and municipal cash-flow problems pushed civic organizations into informal currency roles. The Advertising Club fractional — a quarter-cent denomination, which is unusual even by Depression scrip standards — was almost certainly intended for making change in local retail transactions, plugging a gap left by the disappearance of small coins from everyday circulation in the early 1930s.
Quarter-cent scrip is rare enough that most catalogers treat any surviving example as a collector piece rather than a circulation artifact.