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1 Cent - Food Stamp Scrip Elam Grocery
| Issuer | Elam Grocery & Market |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Size | 108 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper coupon with no vignette or guilloche. The denomination '1c' appears in bold at upper left and right, with 'Credit Coupon' in large serif type across the centre. Redemption conditions are set in letterpress below, with the issuer's name, proprietor, and address in red ink within a ruled border at foot. |
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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 ELAM GROCERY & MARKET HARLAN B. ELAM 1801 K STREET |
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Food stamp scrip of this kind proliferated briefly in the late 1960s as a workaround to a genuine administrative problem: the federal Food Stamp Program, relaunched nationally in 1964, issued coupons in fixed denominations, leaving retailers unable to make change when a purchase fell short of a round figure. Individual stores issued their own fractional scrip — redeemable only in-house — to plug the gap. The practice was tolerated for a few years before federal authorities moved to standardize change-making procedures and effectively killed off private scrip of this type by the early 1970s.
Elam Grocery & Market is a minor issuer with no known catalog prominence. Single-store scrip from this period survives largely by accident.