1 Bottle Beer - Hill House Bar & Grill Boyd, Wisconsin

Wisconsin bar scrip occupies a genuinely odd corner of American notaphily. Tavern-issued tokens and paper chits were a practical workaround for establishments that ran tab systems or wanted to lock in prepaid drink purchases — common enough in rural Wisconsin, where a regular's credit was worth more than cash on a slow Tuesday. Paper scrip of this type from small-town bars rarely survived in any quantity; it was meant to be redeemed and discarded, not collected.

Boyd is a village in Chippewa County with a population that has never exceeded a few hundred. That Conley's Hill House generated printed scrip rather than handwritten chits suggests at least some organizational intent, which makes surviving examples more interesting than their humble origins imply.