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1 Cent - Bohack New York, New York
| Issuer | Bohack Corporation |
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| Year | 1960-1979 |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = EUR 0.0085 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on white paper with a decorative lace-pattern border. A central guilloche vignette bearing the denomination "1¢" is flanked on both sides by the inscription "FOOD COUPON CREDIT SLIP". The Bohack store name appears in a ruled panel at top centre, with the legend "GOOD ONLY AT BOHACK" and date code "8/70" at the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted white reverse, showing faint ink show-through from the obverse printing. |
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Bohack was a Brooklyn-based grocery chain that operated across the New York metropolitan area from the late nineteenth century until its bankruptcy in 1977. These fractional cent notes were issued as trading stamps redeemable in-store — a promotional mechanism common among American supermarket chains during the postwar decades, when intense competition for customer loyalty drove retailers toward increasingly elaborate redemption schemes. Bohack's collapse came after a protracted struggle with rising costs and competition from larger chains, and the corporation filed for Chapter 11 protection before ultimately liquidating.
Notes from the final years of the program are considerably scarcer than early issues.