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1 Cent - A & P Tea Co., Inc. Buffalo, New York
| Issuer | A & P Tea Co., Inc. |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | A & P TEA CO., INC. Redeemable For Amount Specified Only In Conjunction With Federal Food Stamp Plan 1¢ STORE STAMP 1¢ |
| Reverse description | Reverse is essentially blank white paper, with show-through of the obverse letterpress text visible in mirror image. A handwritten notation reading "Buffalo NY" appears at upper left in pencil. |
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The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — universally known as A&P — issued trade tokens and scrip intermittently through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as part of various customer loyalty and premium schemes. This Buffalo-issued cent piece would have functioned as internal scrip, redeemable against purchases rather than circulating freely. A&P operated hundreds of small-format cash-and-carry stores in New York State by the 1910s and 1920s, Buffalo among its densest markets.
Paper cent denominations at this scale were rarely saved — discarded the moment they were redeemed or simply lost in a coat pocket.