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1 Cent - Canal Villere Food Stores New Orleans, Louisiana
| Issuer | Canal Villere Food Stores |
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| Size | 115 x 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | FOOD STAMP CREDIT 1₵ Canal 1₵ Villere Food Stores REDEEMABLE IN MERCHANDISE ONLY, UNDER THE PROVISION OF THE FEDERAL FOOD STAMP PROGRAM. VALID AT THE ABOVE STORE ONLY. |
| Reverse description | Plain pink paper reverse with a faint blue underprint ghost of the obverse design showing through, and a serial number printed vertically along the right margin. No additional design elements are present. |
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Canal Villere Food Stores was a regional grocery chain operating in the New Orleans area during the mid-twentieth century, and like many American retailers of the period, it issued its own fractional paper currency — trade tokens in note form — to handle small-denomination transactions that metal coinage made inconvenient at the checkout. These merchant-issued scrip pieces occupied a gray area: not legal tender, but functionally accepted within the issuer's own stores.
New Orleans had a notably active local scrip culture, partly rooted in the city's long history of privately issued currency substitutes dating back to the antebellum era.