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1 Cent - Arapahoe Super Foods Leadville, Colorado
| Uitgever | Arapahoe Super Foods, Leadville, Colorado |
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| Jaar | |
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| Waarde | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain tan paper stock printed in black letterpress with four corner denomination tablets reading "1¢". The central field carries a red rubber store stamp inscribed "Arapahoe Super Foods / 1100 Poplar St. / Leadville, Colo. / Home of Red Carpet Service". Vertical side panels at left and right read "Food Stamp Program Certificate of Credit" rotated 90 degrees. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Entirely unprinted plain tan paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Leadville, Colorado sits at over 10,000 feet — the highest incorporated city in the United States — and the town's economic isolation made local merchant scrip a practical necessity well into the twentieth century. Arapahoe Super Foods issued this 1-cent note as store credit or change scrip, a workaround for the chronic small-coin shortages that plagued remote mountain communities where banks were sparse and coin supply unpredictable.
Retailer-issued paper in fractional denominations is among the least systematically documented of all American ephemeral currency, and Leadville examples are particularly scarce in established catalogs.