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1 Cent - A & Z Foods, Inc. Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | A & Z Foods, Inc. |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 1c 1c FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at A & Z FOODS, INC. 8007 S. COTTAGE GROVE CHICAGO, ILL. ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1c 1c |
| Reverse description | Unprinted yellow paper with an overall fine basket-weave texture printed in a slightly deeper tone, forming a dense geometric underprint across the entire surface. A cursive script mark is faintly visible near the right centre. |
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A & Z Foods, Inc. was among the many American retailers and employers who issued their own fractional paper scrip during the Great Depression, when acute shortages of federal coin made small-change transactions genuinely difficult. These private tokens of obligation — not legal tender by any measure — circulated within a closed ecosystem, redeemable only at the issuing business. The practice was technically tolerated rather than sanctioned, and the Treasury moved to suppress it by the mid-1930s as coin supplies stabilized.
No records of A & Z Foods appear to have survived in accessible trade or municipal archives, which makes attribution beyond the printed text speculative.