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1 Cent - Hamideh Super Mart Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Hamideh Super Mart |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with a fine crosshatch underprint throughout. The face is framed by an ornate letterpress border with scrollwork corner devices, each bearing the denomination "1c" in circular cartouches. A central oval vignette carries a figure of Justice, flanked by a circular scales-of-justice roundel at left. The denomination "ONE CENT" appears at right in bold type. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1C 1C FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at HAMIDEH SUPER MART 5532 South Ashland Chicago, Illinois ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1C 1C |
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Hamideh Super Mart was one of thousands of small ethnic grocery retailers operating in Chicago during the late twentieth century that issued their own scrip to handle fractional change — a practice with roots in the Depression-era "trade tokens" of the 1930s but which persisted quietly in immigrant-owned retail well into the 1990s. Private merchant scrip of this type occupied a legal gray area: not technically currency, but functionally used as such within a single store or small neighborhood network.
Paper cent scrip from individual grocers is almost never formally cataloged, and surviving examples are genuinely uncommon — not because they were rare in issue, but because nobody kept them.