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1 Cent - Garden Super Market Omaha, Nebraska
| Issuer | Garden Super Market |
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| Year | 1960-1979 |
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| Size | 153 x 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Garden Food Stamp DUE 1 BILL CENT VALID FOR PURCHASES UNDER FEDERAL FOOD STAMP PLAN |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with no printed design. Faint bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression is visible, along with a handwritten notation in the lower right corner. |
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American supermarket trade tokens in paper form occupy a peculiar corner of notaphily — part scrip, part promotional coupon, never legal tender but accepted without question within the issuing store. Garden Super Market operated in Omaha during a period when regional grocers routinely issued fractional paper scrip to avoid handling pennies at high-volume checkout lanes, a practice that was legally permissible under Nebraska statutes provided the scrip was redeemable only at the issuer's premises.
The wide date range reflects the absence of any surviving corporate records pinning down print runs or issue cycles — a common problem with ephemeral retail scrip of this type.