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1 Cent - Cousins Food Mart Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Cousins Food Mart |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at COUSINS FOOD MART 2225 NORTH WESTERN Chicago, Illinois ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1C 1C |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with an overall fine geometric maze-pattern underprint covering the entire surface, printed in a tone-on-tone yellow. No additional vignettes, inscriptions, or design elements are present. |
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Cousins Food Mart was a Chicago-area grocery chain that issued small-denomination paper scrip to handle the perennial problem of exact change — a common workaround among independent retailers before rounding laws and coin-op solutions became widespread. This cent note is a piece of that informal economy: legally permissible as a trade token redeemable only at the issuer's own register, not subject to the same regulations governing government currency.
Chicago had a particularly active scrip-issuing retail culture through the mid-twentieth century, and grocery chains were among the most frequent issuers of low-denomination paper.