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1 Cent - Country Fair Erie, Pennsylvania
| Issuer | Country Fair (Erie, Pennsylvania) |
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| Year | 1967-1979 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | UNITED STATES FOOD PLAN 1C CREDIT COUPON 1C This coupon will be redeemed for food According To Food Stamp Law Beginning June 1st 1967 Redeemable for 1c In Food Purchases only at PROPERTY OF COUNTRY FAIR |
| Reverse description | Plain pink paper, essentially blank, with show-through of the obverse letterpress text visible in mirror image. A handwritten pencil notation appears at lower right. |
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Country Fair was a regional convenience store chain based in Erie that issued its own scrip for use at its locations — a practice that sat in a legal gray zone throughout the 1970s as federal regulators periodically revisited whether private trade currency violated U.S. statutes on token money. These notes circulated as promotional currency rather than true fiduciary instruments, redeemable in merchandise rather than cash, which kept them outside the strictest definitions.
The twelve-year window of issue almost certainly reflects multiple print runs with subtle typographic differences between early and late examples — worth examining side by side before assuming two copies are identical.