1 Cent - Fazio's Shopping Bag

Fazio's Shopping Bag was a regional grocery chain based in the Cleveland, Ohio area, active primarily through the 1960s and 1970s. Like a number of American retailers during that period, it issued its own paper scrip — low-denomination tokens of credit intended to reduce reliance on coin change and encourage return visits. This 1 Cent piece is among the smallest denominations such programs typically bothered to produce, suggesting either a particularly meticulous accounting policy or a promotional push to retain fractional change rather than round up.

Collector interest in American merchant scrip of this type remains niche but steady.