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1 Cent - Allen's Market Chicago, Illinois

Uitgever Allen's Market
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Type Vouchers
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FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP
Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at
ALLEN'S MARKET
700 EAST 43RD STREET
Chicago, Ill.
ONE CENT
Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency
ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP
1C 1C
Beschrijving keerzijde Plain yellow paper with a faint crosshatch underprint pattern overall. No printed text or vignettes are present.
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Opmerkingen

Allen's Market was among hundreds of American retailers that issued small-denomination paper scrip during the early 1930s, when acute coin shortages — driven by hoarding at the onset of the Depression — made it genuinely difficult to make change. These merchant fractional notes circulated hyperlocally, typically redeemable only at the issuing store, and most were destroyed once federal emergency coin supplies stabilized or the issuing business closed.

Chicago examples are harder to document than scrip from smaller markets, largely because urban turnover was high and few merchants kept redemption records. Allen's Market itself leaves almost no paper trail outside the scrip itself.

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