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1 Cent - Chet's Master Market Pueblo, Colorado
| Issuer | Chet's Master Market |
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| Size | 117 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1₵ 1₵ CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT - REDEEMABLE FOR AUTHORIZED MERCHANDISE ONLY AT INDICATED STORE Food Stamp Program CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT Food Stamp Program CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT CHET'S MASTER MARKET 2639 ELIZABETH PUEBLO, COLO. 81023 Store Stamp GOOD FOR 1₵ IN AUTHORIZED MERCHANDISE UNDER U.S.D.A. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM ONLY 1₵ 1₵ |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, plain tan card stock with no text, vignette, or ornament. |
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Chet's Master Market was a regional grocery operation out of Pueblo, Colorado. This one-cent card token belongs to a category of merchant scrip that proliferated across the American interior during the mid-twentieth century, typically issued to smooth over change-making problems when coin shortages bit into daily retail operations. Pueblo's industrial base — anchored by the CF&I steel works — made small-denomination scrip practical in a working-class town where high transaction volumes at grocery counters created real change float problems.