1 Cent - A & P Tea Co., Inc. Buffalo, New York

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.